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Midhat Pasha

by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 30 June 1877
12 3/8 in. x 7 5/8 in. (314 mm x 193 mm)
Purchased, 1934
Primary Collection
NPG 4707(21)

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  • Midhat Pasha (1822-1884), Turkish statesman. Sitter in 3 portraits.

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  • Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), 'Spy'; caricaturist and portrait painter; son of Edward Matthew Ward. Artist or producer associated with 1617 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.

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Pasha is shown seated comfortably with his legs casually crossed smoking a Turkish pipe. He wears on his head a tarboosh popularly referred to as a fez which is named after the Moroccan city of Fez where the crimson berry was sourced to dye the felt.

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Current affairs

Trial of social activists Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh following their publication of a book by the American birth-control campaigner Charles Knowlton, which suggested that working class families should be able to practice birth control. Although found guilty, the case was thrown out on a technical fault.

Art and science

The Grosevenor Gallery opens, founded by Sir Coutts Lindsay, as a rival to the Royal Academy. It exhibited work by artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane, outside of the British mainstream, and became famous as the home of the Aesthetic movement.
The first Lawn Tennis Championship is held at Wimbledon with around 20 male competitors, witnessed by a few hundred spectators. Spencer Gore the first singles champion, wins 12 guineas.

International

The American inventor Thomas Edison invents the tin foil phonograph, combining the technologies of the telegraph and telephone. Experimenting with a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, he recorded and played back the short message 'Mary had a little lamb'.

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