3-053-683 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Shah in Paris, 1873. The Shah of Persia visits France. 'Arrival at Railway Station; Dinner at Versailles; Fete at Versailles; Returning from Versailles. The series of minor Engravings, which occupy together one page of our Supplement, relate mostly to the superb entertainment given at Versailles, on Tuesday week, in honour of the Shah. The banquet in the Galérie des Glaces of the Versailles palace; the mingled exhibition of waterworks and fireworks in the Bason of Neptune, with a figure of the Persian Lion, radiant aloft in pyrotechnic brilliancy; and the torchlight carriage-procession along the road back to Paris, are shown in these Illustrations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.