'A Rising Star' — Arthur Templeman, Jockey

Spy renders young jockey Arthur Templeman in profile, a pose well-suited to caricature's economy of line. Templeman wears his racing silks — black jacket with broad coral-pink hoops, matching cap, white breeches, and brown-topped black boots — and grips a short crop with both hands. The caption reads "A Rising Star" with the subject identified as W. Templeman, a period misprint or stable-name convention. The composition is relatively straightforward by Spy's standards: no grotesque distortion of feature, the slight pugnaciousness of the boy's jaw the only editorial comment. The figure's youth is the real joke — and the compliment. Printed by Bemrose Dalziel Ltd., Watford & London, this chromolithograph belongs to Vanity Fair's late-era run, when Ward's output had grown prodigious if occasionally routine.