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Self-Portrait,
ca. 1844
adept at caricatures, which he had made since he was a young man, whether of the lecturers and tradesmen at Cambridge or artists and flaneurs in the Latin Quarter. His pen and pencil cartoons were as stylish, probing, and funny as his novels, as is evident in this self-portrait, a witty sendup of a great author. This drawing was likely made in the 1840s, after the publication of Vanity Fair (1840), which Thackeray himself illustrated.
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ca. 1844
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