Author: Delfico (Baron Melchiorre De Filippis Delfico, 1825 – 22 December 1895) (Lith.) Title: Mr Cs Gilpin Mp; Capital Punishment. No. 220. (Original Lithograph. )
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1873. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 18 January 1873. Charles Gilpin (31 March 1815 – 8 September 1874) was a Quaker, orator, politician, publisher and railway director. Amongst his many causes were the movement to repeal the Corn Laws, to establish world peace through the Peace Society, abolition of the death penalty and the anti-slavery movement, enfranchisement by providing freehold land for purchase, liberation of Hungary from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungarian exiles in England, the Poor Law and prison reform, Foreign relations . "a thorough liberal.
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- Book number: 18-3314
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