Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
Librería: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 5 Feb 1870.Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, PC, QC, FRS (25 April 1794 ? 5 October 1878) was a British jurist and Conservative politician. He was twice Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
Librería: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Minor spots of foxing in margins, not affecting image. Published in Vanity Fair, 26 Feb 1870.John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend (10 April 1831 ? 6 October 1899), known as Viscount Raynham from 1855 to 1863, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament.Townshend was the son of John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend, and Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart. The soldier George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, was his paternal great-grandfather, and Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, was his maternal great-grandfather. He was elected to the House of Commons for Tamworth in 1855 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1863, when he inherited the marquessate on his father's death and entered the House of Lords.At the Salisbury Petty Sessions in May 1881, Lord Edward Thynne described how he had been accosted by Lord Townshend and two accomplices on the road between Laverstock and Salisbury. A Colonel Nepean held the pony's head while Townshend struck him several times with the handle of a horse whip. Thynne acknowledged having eloped with Lady Townshend in 1872, but noted that the marquess had never sued for divorce, and alleged that Lord Macduff had attacked him over the same matter while he was abroad.Townshend was convicted of the assault, and sentenced to a fine of £500 or three months in prison. After some hours in jail, he reluctantly paid the fine, equivalent to £46,300 in 2018. Townshend denounced the court, while Vanity Fair reported unnamed others as saying "the only regret is that he [Thynne] was not thrashed earlier and worse".
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
Librería: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 19 March 1870.Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, GCB, PC (4 May 1822 ? 9 May 1895) was a British Peelite and later Liberal politician. The eldest son of the prime minister Robert Peel, he was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1844. He served as Member of Parliament for Tamworth, his father's constituency, from 1850 until 1880, for Huntingdon from 1884 and for Blackburn from 1885 to 1886. He was appointed Irish secretary in 1861 in Palmerston's ministry, but in 1865, under Russell he was succeeded by Chichester Fortescue. His political career was said to be marred by his lack of dignity and his inability to accept a fixed political creed. He was appointed a GCB in 1866.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
Librería: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Page trimmed at bottom, with loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair, 16 April 1870.Nawab Sayyid Mansur Ali Khan (29 October 1830 ? 4 November 1884) was Nawab of Bengal until his abdication in 1880, whereupon he renounced his titles and position as Nawab of Bengal. Bengal had been under occupation of the British East India Company since 1773 when Warren Hastings was appointed by the East India Company as the first Governor-General of Bengal. By 1793 British East India company took complete control of Bengal (former Mughal province), making Mansur Khan just a titular ruler under the British Raj.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 9 April 1870.Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava KP GCB GCSI GCMG GCIE PC (21 June 1826 ? 12 February 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic.He is now best known as one of the most successful diplomats of his time. His long career in public service began as a commissioner to Syria in 1860, where his skilful diplomacy maintained British interests while preventing France from instituting a client state in Lebanon. After his success in Syria, Dufferin served in the Government of the United Kingdom as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Under-Secretary of State for War. In 1872 he became the third Governor General of Canada, bolstering imperial ties in the early years of the Dominion, and in 1884 he reached the pinnacle of his diplomatic career as eighth Viceroy of India.Following his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1896, his final years were marred by personal tragedy and a misguided attempt to secure his family's financial position. His eldest son was killed in the Second Boer War and another son badly wounded. He was chairman of a mining firm that went bankrupt after swindling people, although he was ignorant of the matter. His biographer Davenport-Hines says he was "imaginative, sympathetic, warm-hearted, and gloriously versatile." He was an effective leader in Lebanon, Canada and India, averted war with Russia, and annexed Burma. He was careless with money but charming in high society on three continents.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
Librería: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair, 4 June 1870.Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt, KC (14 October 1827 ? 1 October 1904) was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition. A talented speaker in parliament, he was sometimes regarded as aloof and possessing only an intellectual involvement in his causes. He failed to engender much emotional response in the public and became only a reluctant and disillusioned leader of his party.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 23 April 1870.Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, (George William Frederick Charles; 26 March 1819 ? 17 March 1904) was a member of the British Royal Family, a male-line grandson of King George III, cousin of Queen Victoria, and maternal uncle of Queen Mary, consort of King George V. The Duke was an army officer by profession and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces (military head of the British Army) from 1856 to 1895. He became Duke of Cambridge in 1850 and field marshal in 1862. Deeply devoted to the old Army, he worked with the Queen to defeat or minimize every reform proposal, such as setting up a general staff. His Army became a moribund and stagnant institution, lagging far behind France and Germany. Its weaknesses were dramatically revealed by the poor organization at the start of the Second Boer War.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
Librería: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 26 March 1870.Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon, KG, PC (27 February 1818 ? 27 September 1903), styled Lord Settrington until 1819 and Earl of March between 1819 and 1860, was a British Conservative politician.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair, 28 May 1870.Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newton Anner, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 ? 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Good. Loss in bottom margin not affecting image or text, else fine. Published in Vanity Fair, 21 May 1870.Sir Joseph Henry Hawley Bt. (1813?75) was a noted English thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.Caricature in Vanity Fair, 21 May 1870Hawley was born in Harley Street, London, on 27 October 1813 or 1814, the eldest of ten children.In his early career Hawley trained privately at Fyfield in Wiltshire. Four of his horses won The Derby: Teddington (1851), Beadsman (1858), Musjid (1859) and Blue Gown (1868). Other classic horse racing wins were Fitz-Roland in the 1858 2,000 Guineas, Aphrodite in the 1851 1,000 Guineas, Miami in the 1847 Oaks and Pero Gomez in the 1869 St Leger. He thus won all five English Classics. He was the breeder of the 1874 Belmont Stakes winner Saxon.He served as High Sheriff of Kent for 1844.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair, 12 Feb 1870.John Somerset Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton, GCB, PC, FRS (20 February 1799 ? 9 April 1880), known as Sir John Pakington, Bt, from 1846 to 1874, was a British Conservative politician.
Publicado por London: Vanity Fair., 1870
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Condición: Good. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 12 March 1870.John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, PC (27 January 1800 ? 7 March 1873) was a British statesman. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1872.