Naval Portrait. Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons. Tallis engraving c1853

$85.00

Antique print of Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Commander of the British fleet in the Black Sea.

Original steel engraving by the famous Tallis publishing house, at the time of this publication, called the London Printing & Publishing Company. Tallis were publishers of steel engravings of both maps and prints. They were renowned for the embellishment of the central subject by an intricately engraved border.

The hand-colour has been added at a later date, as this fine engraving was published in black & white.
The page size is: 27 x 18cm (10.1/2 x 7 inches).