The saint, on the surface, may be all the things the respectable man is not—a holy fool, or a man of contradiction and uncouthness. He is always “a bit much.”
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (aka Spy) 1851-1922 | British Caricatures of Queen Victoria and Edward VII Charcoal on paper These satirical caricatures of Queen Victoria and Edward VII offer an amusing glimpse into the mind of famed British cartoonist Sir Leslie Matthew Ward, who frequently published his drawings in Vanity Fair under the pseudonym "Spy." Ward established his moniker through secretly observing his subjects and capturing them from a distance with varying degrees of flattery or uncouthness. Ward drew 1,325 cartoons for Vanity Fair between 1873 and 1911. While some critics found Ward’s depictions of royalty and other high-ranking society members to be overly flattering and sympathetic, these rare sketches reveal a more critical yet playful point of view. Here, Ward abstractly sketches his subjects, Queen Victoria and Edward VII, in profile, rendered not as monarchs but rather as mice. Spy utilized spare lines to draw identifiable attributes, like the queen’s veiled crown, but emphasizes the two figures’ anthropomorphic qualities including raised paws and long tails. While Spy eventually became a member of the society circles immortalized in his cartoons, moving from satirical caricature to what he termed "characteristic portraits," these rare sketches reveal that the artist’s irreverent humor remained. These two sketches are perfectly preserved and framed together with an identification plaque. Circa 1900 Drawings: Queen Victoria: 4 3/4" high x 5 1/2" wide Edward VII: 5 5/8" high x 4 3/4" wide Framed: 15 1/8" high x 10 1/4" wide
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Billy Byrne squared his broad shoulders and filled his deep lungs with the familiar medium which is known as air in Chicago. He was standing upon the platform of a New York Central train that was pulling into the La Salle Street Station, and though the young man was far from happy something in the nature of content pervaded his being, for he was coming home. After something more than a year of world wandering and strange adventure Billy Byrne was coming back to the great West Side and Grand Avenue. Now there is not much upon either side or down the center of long and tortuous Grand Avenue to arouse enthusiasm, nor was Billy particularly enthusiastic about that more or less squalid thoroughfare. The thing that exalted Billy was the idea that he was coming back to _show them_. He had left under a cloud and with a reputation for genuine toughness and rowdyism that has seen few parallels even in the ungentle district of his birth and upbringing. A girl had changed him. She was as far removed from Billy's sphere as the stars themselves; but Billy had loved her and learned from her, and in trying to become more as he knew the men of her class were he had sloughed off much of the uncouthness that had always been a part of him, and all of the rowdyism. Billy Byrne was no longer the mucker.
