Title

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Whig statesman and Prime Minister, (1893).Artist: W Roffe

Caption

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Whig statesman and Prime Minister, (1893). Melbourne (1779-1848) succeeded Earl Grey as Prime Minister in 1834. As Prime Minister when the young Queen Victoria ascended the throne, he acted as her political mentor until he left office in 1841. An Engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time', William Mackenzie, London, 1893.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1893

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C12_392

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,6Mb) / 11,5in x 16,9in / 3442 x 5074 (300dpi)

Keywords

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