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Queen Victoria Interviewing Benjamin Disraeli at Osborne House

1887
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This 1887 engraving reproduces a painting by Wirgman that commemorates a visit by the British primeminister Disraeli to Queen Victoria on July 20, 1878. The minister came to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight to report on the "peace with honor" achieved at the Congress of Berlin (June 13-July 3). Disraeli had attended the congress and helped to draft the treaty that concluded the Russo-Turkish War.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Queen Victoria Interviewing Benjamin Disraeli at Osborne House
  • Engraver: Thomas Lewis Atkinson (British, Salisbury 1817–1898)
  • Artist: After Theodore Blake Wirgman (British, Leuven, Belgium 1848–1925)
  • Publisher: Joseph Dickinson (London)
  • Publisher: John Garle Browne (British, active 1855–87)
  • Sitter: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
  • Sitter: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (British, London 1804–1881 London)
  • Date: 1887
  • Medium: Mixed method engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 30 × 34 1/2 in. (76.2 × 87.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.40.243
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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