Sujet
The Shah on the Thames: embarking at the Tower for the West India Dock and Greenwich, 1873. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The Shah on the Thames: embarking at the Tower for the West India Dock and Greenwich, 1873. The Shah of Persia in London. 'At the Tower Wharf, kept by a guard of honour of the Coldstreams, he embarked in the river steam-boat Princess Alice, which was accompanied by the Cupid, having on board the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Crown Prince and Princess of Russia, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Teck and Princess Mary, Prince Christian, and the Duke of Cambridge, all in civilian dress. A salute was fired from the Tower guns, and the two steamers moved down the river, followed by other boats, one bearing the official persons of the Admiralty Board. The river was crowded with ships, barges, boats, and vessels of many different kinds. Their decks and rigging, as well as the wharves and roads on each bank, and windows and crane-stages of the warehouses, being thronged with people, it looked like all London upon the water and banks of the Thames, as it looks above Putney on the day of the University boat-race'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
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HRM25A13_078
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Droits gérés
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53,9Mo (4,8Mo) / 44,8cm x 30,1cm / 5293 x 3561 (300dpi)