Talk:Samuel Wilberforce

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[edit] Vanity Fair Huxley?

The caricature represented in the article as "A cartoon image representing Wilberforce during the Huxley-Wilberforce debate that was published in Vanity Fair" is almost certainly a caricature not of Wilberforce, but of Huxley: compare the face of the caricature to the photograph of Thomas Huxley on the Wikipedia page for Huxley. Thet resemblance is close. The humor of the drawing apparently depended on dressing up Huxley in the robes of his opponent, Bishop Wilberforce.

Someone with access to the original drawing in context, or with other definite historical knowledge of this question, should review this point. If the caricature does depict Huxley, not Wilberforce, then it should be removed from the Wilberforce page. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry Gilman (talk • contribs) 13 July 2007

Do an image search for Samuel Wilberforce or Wilberforce Vanity and you'll see this image is identified as Wilberforce in several places, including the UK National Portrait Gallery. You'll also find other Wilberforce images which better resemble the cartoon, which exaggerates his jowls and hair style. Similar searches find a different Huxley caricature from Vanity Fair. -- SEWilco (talk) 05:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)