5 august 1905 lith (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 24 August 1872. Charles John Vaughan (16 August 1816 - 15 October 1897), was an English scholar and Anglican churchman. He was born in Leicester, the second son of the Revd Edward Thomas Vaughan, vicar of St Martin's, Leicester. He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge, where he was bracketed senior classic with Lord Lyttelton in 1838. In 1839 he was elected fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for a short time studied law. He took orders in 1841, and became vicar of St Martin's, Leicester. Three years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow School. He resigned the headship in 1859 and accepted the bishopric of Rochester, but afterwards withdrew his acceptance. In 1860 he was appointed vicar of Doncaster. He was appointed Master of the Temple in 1869, and Dean of Llandaff in 1879, a post he held until his death. In 1894 he was elected president of University College, Cardiff, in recognition of the prominent part he took in its foundation.

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 23 November 1872. Rev. Dr. Christopher Newman Hall LLB (22 May 1816 - 18 February 1902), born at Maidstone and known in later life as a 'Dissenter's Bishop', was one of the most celebrated nineteenth century English Nonconformist divines. He was active in social causes; supporting Abraham Lincoln and abolition of slavery during the American Civil War, the Chartist cause, and arranging for influential Nonconformists to meet Gladstone. Come to Jesus, first published in 1848 also contributed to his becoming a household name throughout Britain, the USA and further afield - by the end of the century the book had been translated into about forty languages and sold four million copies worldwide.

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good. Bottom of page trimmed, with loss of text, else fine. Published in Vanity Fair, 7 September 1872. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (born 28 October 1836, Ireland - died 23 October 1911, Sacramento, California) was a Roman Catholic priest, elevated to Monsignor. Born in either Waterford or Ardmore in Ireland, by 1881 he gives his place of birth as Ramsgate in Kent;[2] this was either done for social reasons or represents a genuine error. His father John Capel was a Chief Boatman with the Coast Guard. In 1854 he helped to establish St Mary's Training College in Hammersmith and became its vice-principal where he remained until 1858 when ill health forced him to resign and go to France to recover. While in France he established the English Catholic Mission at Pau.

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good. Bottom line of text trimmed off of page, else fine. Published in Vanity Fair, 2 Nov 1872. Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 - 10 May 1904) was a Welsh journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his pioneering work later enabling the plundering of the Congo Basin region by King Leopold II of Belgium, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1899.

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 21 September 1872. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, FRS (13 December 1815 - 18 July 1881), known as Dean Stanley, was an English churchman and academic. He was Dean of Westminster from 1864 to 1881. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he was the author of a number of works on Church History. Stanley was born in Alderley Edge in Cheshire, where his father Edward Stanley, later Bishop of Norwich, was then rector. A brother was Owen Stanley and his sister Mary Stanley. The middle-name 'Penrhyn' suggests Welsh lineage.

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 12 October 1872. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Binney (1798-1874) was an English Congregationalist divine of the 19th century, popularly known as the 'Archbishop of Nonconformity'. He was noted for sermons and writings in defence of the principles of Nonconformity, for devotional verse, and for involvement in the cause of anti-slavery.

Condizione: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good. Bottom line of text trimmed off of page, else fine. Published in Vanity Fair, 19 Oct 1872. Léon Gambetta (French: [le?? ???b?ta]; 2 April 1838 - 31 December 1882) was a French statesman, prominent during and after the Franco-Prussian War.