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Giuseppe Garibaldi

(1807-1882), Italian soldier; played central role in unification of Italy

Sitter associated with 23 portraits
Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a pivotal role in the unification of Italy. Born in Nice, he was christened Joseph-Marie Garibaldi on 4 July 1807. Drawn into life at sea by his family's involvement with coastal trade, he was certified as a merchant navy captain in 1832. The following year in Russia he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo a politically active immigrant and member of the secret Young Italy movement of Giuseppe Mazzini. Garibaldi joined the society taking an oath dedicating himself to the struggle to liberate and unify his homeland free from Austrian dominance.

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Unknown man, called Giuseppe Garibaldi

by Z. Bioni
albumen carte-de-visite, June 1862
NPG x5107

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 8 April 1864
NPG Ax9923

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Vanity Fair Panel no. 4 (Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Count von Moltke; Louis Jules Trochu; Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia; Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen; Victor Emmanuel Taparelli, Marchesi d'Azeglio...)

by F. Goedecker, and James Jacques Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Adriano Cecioni, and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Charles Auguste Loye ('M.D' or Montbard)
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1884
NPG D39294

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Soldiers

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Italy

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