3-053-664 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Shah at Madame Tussaud's Gallery of Waxwork Figures, 1873. The Shah of Persia in London. He '...went to see Madame Tussaud's Gallery of Waxwork Figures in Baker-street, where M. Victor Tussaud showed him every part of the exhibition. He was most struck with the effigy of the late Emperor Napoleon III.'s dead body as it appeared when lying in state at Chiselhurst'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.