ROME - AN AUDIENCE WITH PIUS IX. IN THE VATICAN 1872 VICTORIAN ENGRAVING

Original 11 3/4 inch x 8 3/4 inch Engraving titled ROME - AN AUDIENCE WITH PIUS IX. IN THE VATICAN.

From a sketch by Sydney Prior Hall (1842 - 1922). Sir Sydney Prior Hall MVO, MA was a British portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period.
The son of animal portraitist Harry Hall, Sydney Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He decided on a career as an artist while at Oxford University and joined the staff of The Graphic, an illustrated newspaper, shortly after its foundation in late 1869. He immediately established his name with a series of vivid drawings made at the front during the Franco-Prussian War.

With Henry Woods (1846 - 1921). Draughtsman illustrator and painter of Venetian genre Woods studied at Warrington School of Art and later in London at the South Kensington Schools and initially worked as an illustrator for 'The Graphic' and others before turning to painting.

From The Graphic April 27th, 1872
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to The National Graphic between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues.

Page size 15 1/2 inch x 11 1/2 inch

The engraving is in very good condition. Printed text on the reverse.