The Lord Chancellor of Paflagonia, SQARETOSO

W. M. Thackeray

1855

Wood engraving, probably by William Linton

7.4 cm high by 4.3 cm wide (2 ⅞ by 1 ¾ inches), vignetted

thirteenth illustration for Thackeray’s The Rose and The Ring, p. 317.

Thackeray now switches to the education of Prince Giglio, who does not behave like a future responsible Constitutional Monarch at all. Descriptive headlines: "Shows How Giglio Evinces Idle Tastes Like Other Princes" (316-17). [Commentary continues below.]

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