Gyula Andrássy, 'Hungary in Effigy'

Signed by the little-known 'Kluz' rather than the magazine's usual hands, this chromolithograph presents Count Gyula Andrássy—Hungarian statesman and Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister—as a squat, barrel-chested figure in black frock coat and stovepipe hat. The caricaturist exaggerates his wild, curling side-hair, heavy moustache, and ruddy complexion, deploying the era's standard shorthand for 'exotic' Central European masculinity: untamed hair signalling passionate temperament against the buttoned propriety of his English suit. The caption 'Hungary in effigy' is both a pun on Andrássy's role as his nation's embodiment and a mild jab—effigy implying a constructed likeness standing in for the real thing. As Austro-Hungarian minister navigating post-1866 European realpolitik, Andrássy was sufficiently prominent to merit Vanity Fair's scrutiny but foreign enough to invite visual othering.