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C1902
The Lobster (Digby Jephson)
Artist:
Spy - Sir Leslie Ward (1851 - 1922)
Full Name: Digby Loder Armroid Jephson Born: 23 February 1871, Brixton, London Died: 19 January 1926, Cambridge Major Teams: Cambridge University, Surrey. Batting Style: Right Hand Bat Bowling Style: (underarm), Right Arm Fast From the original issue of Vanity … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Lobster (Digby Jephson)
Date:
C1902
Artist:
Spy - Sir Leslie Ward (1851 - 1922)
Condition:
Small repaired tear at top right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Original colour lithograph
Image Size:
350mm
x 220mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1902
Description:
Full Name: Digby Loder Armroid Jephson
Born: 23 February 1871, Brixton, London
Died: 19 January 1926,
Cambridge Major Teams: Cambridge University, Surrey.
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: (underarm), Right Arm Fast
From the original issue of Vanity Fair, famous for its cartoons of people of the day.
Biography:
Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922)
Ward was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who over four decades painted 1,325 portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms
Such was his influence in the genre that all Vanity Fair caricatures are sometimes referred to as “Spy Cartoons” regardless of who the artist actually was. Early portraits, almost always full-length (judges at the bench being the main exception), had a stronger element of caricature and usually distorted the proportions of the body, with a very large head and upper body supported on much smaller lower parts. Later, as he became socially accepted in the society in which he moved to gain access to his subjects, and not wishing to cause offence, his style developed into what he called ‘characteristic portraits’, being less of a caricature and more of an actual portrait of the subject, using realistic body proportions.
