[Egerton Castle, in fencing clothes and holding a rapier] [picture] / Spy
- Bib ID:
- 3638203
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Printer:
- (London : Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd.)
- Description:
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- [London] : Vanity fair, [1905 ]
- 1 reproduction print : col. ; 39 x 27.1 cm. (sheet); 33 x 20 cm. (image).
- Biography/History:
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Egerton Castle graduated from Sandhurst as a lieutenant and served as a Captain in the Royal Engineer Militia. After military service he turned to writing and became a novelist. In 1885 he published an authorative history on swordsmanship.
- Notes:
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- Title from pencil inscription on verso.
- Inscriptions: Signed "Spy"--Lower left; "He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword"--Below image centre; "Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith."--Below image left; "Vanity Fair Supplement"--Above image.
- Caricature of Egerton Castle by "Spy", originally published in "Vanity Fair, 9th March 1905".
- Condition: Fair, some tears on RH edge.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137144417
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1922
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1905
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