3-016-897 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Duchess of Sutherland's assembly at Stafford House in honour of Garibaldi, 1864. Scene depicting an episode during '...the General's sojourn in this metropolis [ie London, when he enjoyed] the splendid entertainment provided by the hospitality of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The superbly-decorated apartments of Stafford House were never seen to greater advantage than when crowded by this great assembly to do honour to an illustrious guest of the noble Duke and of the nation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.