George Lionel Henry Seymour Dawson-Damer, 5th Earl of Portarlington. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1894.

Army officer and landowner. Portrayed holding a cigar exuberantly beyond the left border of the lithograph

Bears earl's coronet, upper right

[London] : Vanity fair, August 16, 1894 ([London] : Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, lith.)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 32.7 x 18.8 cm

"The dasher". Spy. Vanity fair.

Leslie Ward, Forty years of 'Spy', London 1915, p. 159 ("One of the smartest figures in Society was Lord Portarlington, known to his friends as "the Dasher." I drew him--and there was plenty of him--smoking his very unusually large cigar, and not forgetting the gardenia, which was in proportion.")

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