Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield ('He educated the Tories and dished the Whigs to pass Reform...') NPG D1033

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Carlo Pellegrini

This is an original drawing, published as a chromolithograph in Vanity Fair on 30 January 1869, the first caricature to appear in the magazine's fifty-year history. As such it is a landmark work in the history of Victorian graphic satire. The society magazine Vanity Fair was founded in 1868 and introduced a distinctive type of satirical portraiture new to British journalism. Appearing every week, these caricatures were reproduced by the revolutionary new process of chromolithography and included many of the best-known personalities of the late... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.