[HARDY (Thomas, 1840-1928, Novelist & Poet)]

Fine Caricature Portrait in Colours from Vanity Fair, by 'Spy', (Leslie Ward), showing him in bowler hat, buff jacket and striped black trousers, hands on his walking stick, with a thoughtful direct gaze, with the original printed description, telling of his time as an architect "with the assistance of Sir Arthur Blomfield" managing "to destroy many Gothic piles in mistaken zeal for 'restoring' them" and his emergence as a novelist, "He holds that fiction should embody developments of life in which people silently believe ... rather than ... pretend to believe ... And very nearly all that he has written is Literature ...", No. 540 in the series 'Men of the Day', 2 separate sides 15" x 10½", 4th June



Item Date:  1892

Stock No:  56049