Carlo
Pellegini was
born in Italy in 1838. He came to London
in 1865 and was engaged by Vanity Fair.
His caricature of Benjamin Disraeli was
the first lithograph to appear in the magazine. It was so popular
that it helped to establish the idea of the coloured caricature in
British magazines. Signing his work Ape, Pellegini continued to the
journal for the rest of his life. Other artists on the magazine influenced
by Pellegini included James Tissot, Leslie
Ward (Spy) and Jean de Paleologu (Pal).
Carlo Pellegini died in 1889.
Ape, Lord Lyons (1869)
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