Master Marksman: Walter Winans, The Record Revolver Shot, Vanity Fair 1893
€ 220
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Date
1893
Sheet size
40 × 27 cm (15.7 × 10.6 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-13102-10
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
Walter Winans, the record revolver shot, a color lithograph caricature from Vanity Fair, dated August 1893. The caption below the figure reads "The Record Revolver Shot", the artist's monogram "Spy" is at the lower left, and the imprint is that of Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd.
The subject stands full length against a soft yellow-green ground of grass. He wears a gray-green tweed jacket, knee breeches and brown boots, with a red tie and a hat held in the left hand against his hip, and aims a long-barreled revolver straight out to the right. His full beard and moustache and a faintly amused look give the drawing the personality that Spy's portraits aimed at.
Winans, an American who lived in England, was a champion marksman, and later a sculptor and an Olympic competitor. Vanity Fair, the London weekly, published a color caricature of a notable person in most numbers, and this is the plate for the August 1893 issue.
