Equestrian Elegance: Martinez de Hoz, The Argentine Sportsman, Vanity Fair 1910
€ 220
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1910
Sheet size
40 × 27 cm (15.7 × 10.6 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-13102-11
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
About this sheet
Martinez de Hoz, "An Argentine Sportsman", a color-printed caricature from the Vanity Fair supplement, published November 23, 1910. The plate is lettered "An Argentine Sportsman" with the sitter's name, "Martinez de Hoz", in brackets at the lower right, and signed "WHO" at the lower right of the image. The printer's imprint, Hentschel Colortype, London, appears at the lower left.
The subject stands full length against a pale wash of gray and blue, in a long fawn overcoat, gray top hat and dark striped trousers. A moustache and a firm expression mark his face. He holds a pair of tan gloves in his hands, and a long riding whip loops over his arm and down to a cane.
Vanity Fair issued color caricatures of public figures, and this plate is from its supplement, which in this period was printed in the Hentschel color process. The title identifies the sitter as a sportsman of Argentina, the kind of wealthy rancher and horseman who often visited London in the years before the First World War.
