Left: Luke Fildes. "Men of the Day. No. 552." by Sir Leslie Ward ('Spy'), 1851-1922. Chromolithograph. Published in Vanity Fair, 24 December 1892. 35.9 cm by 24.2 cm (14 ⅛ by 9 ½ inches), framed. © National Portrait Gallery, No. D44626, by kind permission. Right: Fildes's painting, The Doctor. [Click on the images to enlarge them, and for more information about The Doctor.] — Philip V. Allingham
Other Vanity Fair Literary & Artistic Caricatures
- The Poet Laureate [Alfred Lord Tennyson]
- The Representative of Romance [Bulwer-Lytton]
- The Realization of the Ideal — "Men of the Day: No. 40" [John Ruskin]
- The Diogenes of the Modern Corinthians without his Tub [Thomas Carlyle]
- The Queen's Sculptor [Joseph Edgar Boehm]
S. Luke Fildes: Works (1844-1927)
- Paintings
- Illustrations from The Graphic
- Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870): 17 wood-engravings
- Charles Lever's Lord Kilgobbin from Cornhill Magazine (1 Oct. 1870-March 1872)
Bibliography
Cohen, Jane R. "Chapter 18: Luke Fildes." Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State U. P., 1980. Pp. 221-234.
"Luke Fildes (Men of the Day. No. 552)." National Portrait Gallery. Web. 28 July 2023.
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. "He Painted 'The Doctor'. Luke Fildes ['Men of the Day, No. 552.']" Vanity Fair (24 December 1892). Caricature.
Created 27 July 2023