Lord Stanley ('He speaks with one party and acts with the other.')

Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape') presents Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby and former Foreign Secretary, in three-quarter rear profile — the characteristic Vanity Fair pose that flattens a subject into a silhouette of social type. Stanley's considerable girth is exaggerated beneath a double-breasted frock coat; a top hat sits low over a fleshy, receding profile; a cane trails behind clasped hands. The composition is cool grey and slate, befitting a man of studied detachment. The caption bites: Stanley had drifted from his father's Tory leadership toward Gladstonian Liberalism, making him politically unreliable to both sides. Pellegrini's caricature emphasizes physiognomic features and political inconsistency.