| [General Frederick Marshall, C.M.G.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, lithographers, of London. Vanity Fair London, England December 24th, 1896 Men of the Day, Number. 666 First Printing A Chromolithographed print measuring, with margins, 39.37X26.67 cm [15.5X10.5 inches], with the illustration itself measuring 33.02X18.42 cm [13X7.25 inches]. Includes an accompanying 36.20X25.4 cm. [14.25X10] printed sheet, photocopy of page 433 of this issue of Vanity Fair, [bright and clean] providing biographical details by "Jehu Junior" [Thomas Bowles] about the subject of the print (and including numerous advertisements) Thomas Gibson Bowles (1842–1922), a London-born politician and journalist, in November 1868, he began a society magazine, Vanity Fair, for which magazine Bowles wrote much of the copy, including, as Jehu Junior, the biographical sketches of the caricatures, often reflecting his pungent wit and passion for gossip. Upon the death in 1887 at age 35 of his wife, who had borne him four children, Bowles sold Vanity Fair, and entered Parliament, serving off and on until 1910. An authority on international and martime law, Bowles published a number of books on the subjects. He died on 12 January 1922 at Algeciras, and was buried at Gibraltar. Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter born into a well-known family of artists in London, was educated at Eton and the Royal Academy Schools. He began working for Vanity Fair in 1873, for which he would ultimately draw, under the nom de crayon, of "Spy" and, less so, of "Drawl," between 1873 and 1911, a total of 1,325 watercolor cartoons, turned into chromolithographs for publication, and then usually reproduced as prints on better quality paper. Over time, he shifted from caricatures of his subjects to more flattering "characteristic portraits." He was knighted in 1918. Frederick Marshall (1829-1900), the subject of this print, was born in Godalming, Surrey, educated at Eton, and entered the military with the 10th Hussars in India and had a long military career, particularly in India and the Crimea, including assuming in 1879 command of the cavalry at the Cape of Good Hope in the Zulu War. He was an avid and highly skilled cricketeer and also loved the hounds, and was President of the United All England Eleven, Vice-President of the Surrey County Cricket Club, and Master of the Chiddingfold Hunt.
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