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Carlo Pellegrini — Vanity Fair: Statesman No. 26 "When Birth cannot lead, Brains must."

Carlo Pellegrini

Vanity Fair: Statesman No. 26 "When Birth cannot lead, Brains must."

1869

Created for the influential British weekly, this chromolithographic caricature exemplifies Pellegrini's witty visual commentary on Victorian political figures through exaggerated portraiture.

Medium
color lithograph

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Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair: Statesman No. 26 "When Birth cannot lead, Brains must.", 1869

Created for the influential British weekly, this chromolithographic caricature exemplifies Pellegrini's witty visual commentary on Victorian political figures through exaggerated portraiture.

Medium
color lithograph
Year
1869
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Satire, Statesman, Documentary, Caricature, Color Lithograph, Portrait, British, Figurative

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