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2 unusual facts about Thomas Gibson Bowles


Carlo Pellegrini

It is not recorded how Pellegrini met Thomas Bowles, the owner of Vanity Fair magazine, but he quickly found himself employed by that publication and became its first caricaturist, originally signing his work as 'Singe' and later, and more famously, as 'Ape' (Italian for Bee).

Tommy Bowles

Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841–1922), founder of the magazines The Lady and the English Vanity Fair



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