Sujet

'Portrait of Mr. Cecil Rhodes', c1901. Artist: Mortimer Luddington Menpes

Légende

'Portrait of Mr. Cecil Rhodes', c1901. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) made his fortune in the Kimberley diamond mines, and formed De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1888. As Managing Director of the British South Africa Company, he administered a territory roughly equivalent to the modern nation of Zimbabwe (previously known as Rhodesia after Rhodes). Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in 1890, but resigned in 1896 when his role in instigating the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal came to light In his will he left funds to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University for Germans and Americans. From The Studio Volume 22. [The Offices of the Studio Ltd., London, 1901]
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Date

1901

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19C65_436

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

37,6Mo (2,0Mo) / 28,6cm x 33,0cm / 3375 x 3896 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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