"If the State is happy that has no history, thrice happy is the Statesman who makes none": Edward Cardwell (Statesmen, no. 9) -- Vanity Fair, April 3, 1869
London: Vanity Fair, 1869. 1 chromolithographed print 35 x 23 cm. signed "Ape," with accompanying biographical text. Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), was a caricaturist for Vanity Fair from 1869 to his death in 1889, signing his works "Ape." Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell (1813-1886), the "most faithful disciple extant of Sir Robert Peel," was elected to Parliament in 1842; passed the Cardwell Railway Act in 1854; and, as Secretary of State for War from 1868 to 1874, introduced the Cardwell Reforms into the British Army. In Near Fine- Condition: light marginal soiling; otherwise, clean and bright. Near Fine -. Item #004941
Price: $50.00
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