WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, M.P. 1876 Daniel John Pound VICTORIAN ENGRAVING

Original 1876 11 3/4 inch x 8 3/4 inch Steel Engraving titled THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, M.P.
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British statesman of the Liberal Party. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served for twelve years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894.

Engraved by Daniel John Pound (active 1850 - 1860, died 1894). Engraver, son of Sophia Caroline Booth, Joseph Mallord William Turner's landlady and companion in later life. Pound specialised in copying carte-de-visite photographs of eminent men and women and actors and actresses in their theatrical roles, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall and other photographers, into a larger format, by stipple-engraving and line-engraving, for the London Printing and Publishing Company (1850s) and the Supplement to The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages owned by The London Joint Stock Newspaper Company Limited (1858-1863).
After a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall ( 1813 - 1901). Born in Huddersfield Mayall was a photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. He was a daguerrotyist and studio photographer, studying photography in Pennsylvania with two scientists at University.
From ‘The Royal History of England from the Earliest Period to the Present Time’ by Henry Tyrrell, W.C. Staffordf and John Sherer, Published in 1876 by J.G. Murdoch, 41, Castle Street, Holborn, London.

Image size 8 3/8 inch x 6 5/8 inch

The engraving is in very good condition with minor warping. Reverse side blank.