Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.20461

    Caricature of William Henry Broadbent

    Date
    1902
    Creator
    Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851 - 1922, British) , Artist
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    Caricature of William Henry Broadbent, sitting in left profile as viewed at a wooden desk, his hand holding a pen raised above a sheet of paper. A raised hand in a shield is depicted in the top right-hand corner of the cartoon.

    Inscribed in the bottom left corner of the print: ‘Spy’
    Inscribed above: ‘VANITY FAIR. Octr 30th 1902’
    Inscribed below: ‘Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith./ “orthodoxy”’

    This caricature is titled ‘Orthodoxy’ and was number 855 of the ‘Men of the Day’ series published in Vanity Fair.

    The associated text begins: ‘He was born seven-and-sixty years ago, he is a Fellow of various Societies, Consulting Physician to a couple of hospitals, and he has attended Royalty. He has not yet been President of the College of Physicians; but he has written on "The Pulse" and on "Heart Disease," and he has been improved into a Baronet. He is very orthodox indeed, he is a very general specialist, and he has a very strong objection to self-advertisement […]’

    Sir William Henry Broadbent (1835-1907, British neurologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1897.

    Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922), British artist who did much of his work under the pseudonym ‘Spy’ and served as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair between 1873-1911.
    Object history
    Vanity Fair’s ‘Men of the Day’ series, which featured a full page, colour caricature of a significant public figure and text commentary, largely written by "Jehu Junior", was a popular feature that ran between 1868 and 1913.

    This print was purchased by the Royal Society in 1999.
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