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C1868
The Recent Attempt on the Life of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.
Rare double page supplement of the attempted murder of Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria while in Sydney. The Duke was on a world tour on the steam frigate HMS Galatea and visited Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Recent Attempt on the Life of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.
Date:
C1868
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
545mm
x 403mm
Paper Size:
525mm
x 433mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1868
Description:
Rare double page supplement of the attempted murder of Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria while in Sydney.
The Duke was on a world tour on the steam frigate HMS Galatea and visited Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, and Sydney. He arrived in Sydney on 21 January 1868 and received a most enthusiastic welcome with many events held in his honour. The incident occurred while he attended a picnic at Clontarf on 12 March, organised as a fund raiser for the Sydney Sailors’ Home by Sydney barrister and politician William Manning. During the event, an Irishman Henry James O’Farrell who had suffered considerable mental illness, attempted to assassinate the prince. Although O’Farrell fired his pistol at close range, the bullet, on striking the prince’s back, glanced off the ribs, inflicting only a slight wound. O’Farrell only narrowly escaped lynching by the crowd, and was immediately arrested. The prince was nursed by the newly arrived Lady Superintendent of Sydney Hospital, Lucy Osburn.
Clemency for O’Farrell was refused, despite the prince’s own proposal to refer the sentence on O’Farrell to the Queen. O’Farrell was convicted of attempted murder, despite his evident mental instability, and hanged on 21 April at Darlinghurst Gaol. The prince, who had recovered completely by the end of March, left for England on the Galatea in early April and arrived on 26 June.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095
T.S.C. - Thomas Selby Cousins (1840 - 1897)
T.S.C. - Thomas Selby Cousins (1840-1897) Cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and engraver son of the engraver Henry Cousins and nephew of the engraver Samuel Cousins. He emigrated for health reasons to New Zealand in 1863-64 and subsequently moved to Melbourne in 1867 finding work as an illustrator and cartoonist. After sometime he returned to Christchurch and worked primarily as a portrait painter.
