Henry Austin Bruce,1815-1895,Caricature,Home secretary

Title: The Rt. Hon. Henry Austin Bruce / Ape.
Creator(s): Pellegrini, Carlo, 1838-1889, artist
Date Created/Published: [1869]
Summary: Caricature shows a balding Henry Austin Bruce, Home Secretary under Prime Minister Gladstone, wearing mutton chops, standing deep in thought. The Ballot Act was designed to protect voters from bribery and coercion by permitting them a secret vote. Pellegrini was a popular portrait caricaturist in London, who signed his drawings Ape.
Notes:
Title from Vanity Fair (London), Aug. 21, 1869.
Signed in ink: C. Pellegrini.
Unfinished preparatory sketch.
Inscribed lower right: J.W. (or Mr) Bruce.
Published in Vanity Fair (London), Aug. 21, 1869, Statesmen #29, with the comment 'He has gained credit by converting himself to the Ballot; he would gain greater credit by converting himself into an ex-Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD/Pellegrini.38
Subjects:
Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce,--Baron,--1815-1895.
Thinking--1870-1880.
Caricatures--British--1870-1880.
Charcoal drawings--British--1870-1880.
Bookmark /2005680460/
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