Title
Mr Cyril Maude
Technique
Cromolithograph
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
height: 36.8cm
width: 24.6cm
Inscription/signature
Printed on recto: "Supplement to "The World." / Spy / Mr. Cyril Maude. / Gillt. Whitehead & Co. Ltd. New Eltham. SE1"
Provenance
Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt in November 2022.
Other number
E0131
Chromolithograph print of Cyril Maude from a supplement to 'The World' by Sir Leslie 'Spy' Ward. Maude is in full length and wears a black tuxedo, with bow tie, monocle hanging on a chain round his neck and a cigarette in his right hand.
Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831-1894), British novelist and dramatist, was best known as the editor of the London society journal, 'The World', briefly illustrated by Spy and other Vanity Fair artists.