Horace Farquhar

Leslie Ward ('Spy') presents Horace Farquhar — financier, courtier, and future Earl — as a figure of composed Establishment authority. The full-length chromolithograph shows a mustachioed gentleman in a double-breasted frock coat, striped trousers, and top hat, walking cane held loosely at his side, one hand tucked behind his back: the posture of a man accustomed to corridors of power. The caricature's exaggerations are mild — a slightly bulbous nose, stiffened bearing — reflecting Farquhar's social position rather than satirical hostility. Close to Edward VII's household and master of political fundraising, he was a man whose influence operated quietly. The caption reads simply "Horace", the familiar form implying insider recognition. Labeled Statesmen No. 695.