Author: Cecioni (Cecioni, Adriano 1838-1886) (Lith.) Title: Mr Wh Dixon; He Discovered New America and Free Russia. Issue No. 182. (Original Lithograph. )
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1872. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of letterpress description. Very Good. Page trimmed at bottom edge with loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair, 27 April 1872. William Hepworth Dixon (30 June 1821 – 26 December 1879) was an English historian and traveller. He was also active in organizing London's Great Exhibition of 1851. He was born on 30 June 1821, at Great Ancoats in Manchester. His father was Abner Dixon of Holmfirth and Kirkburton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, his mother Mary Cryer. His uncle was the reform campaigner and manufacturer Elijah Dixon. His boyhood was passed in the hill country of Over Darwen, under the tuition of his grand-uncle, Michael Beswick. As a lad he became clerk to a merchant named Thompson at Manchester. .
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