"An Irish Baronet." Vanity Fair caricature, Michael O'Loghlen c1872.

by Cecioni, Adriano

The Right Honourable Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen, Baronet, M.P. Vanity Fair lithograph, Statesmen. No. 120 

"Ireland offers so great a field for law and jobbery that any ordinary Irish lawyer and any ordinary politican may feather a nest there, if he have but the usual share of impudence accorded to his country by the beneficent Providence that has refused them so many other qualities.."

During six months of 1872, Adriano Cecioni worked as an artist for Vanity Fair, a short weekly magazine of social commentary, published in London from 1868 to 1914. The magazine's popularity was guaranteed with the inclusion of an amusing chromolithograph caricature, parodying any newsworthy personage. Over the years of publication it became a mark of honour to be the 'victim' of one of the magazine's caricaturists. The publisher accompanied each lithograph with a witty text, written under his pseudonym of 'Jehu Junior' (after the biblical prophet who effected the downfall of his enemies).It was the first time lithography had been used for caricatures, and they were printed by the eminent lithographer, Vincent Brooks.

Page size 355 x 230 (14 x 9 inches).