Author: Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.) Title: Lt-Col Eyw Henderson Cb; Police. Issue 331. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Good. Some toning and foxing, and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 6 March 1875. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB (19 April 1821 – 8 December 1896) was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1869 to 1886. .
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