Ape (Carlo Pellegrini)

Vanity Fair Musicians - 'First Violin' (HRH the Duke of Edinburgh)

Chromolithograph. 1874. 380mm by 260mm (sheet). Vanity Fair portrait of Alfred (1844-1900), the second son. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire.In 1867 as Captain of HMS Galatea he visited Australia where an assasination attempt was made on his life by Henry James O'Farrell. CONDITION : A few tiny specks in the image and margins. Soft light crease across top left corner. Item #1955

Price: $165.00