'Rocks, Rio Agri...' mb-width 2906 Interior view of the Colosseum

Interior view of the Colosseum

The recent General Election had left the Conservatives with a minority government but they had decided to retain office

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Arthur James Balfour was the Chief Secretary for Ireland at the beginning of 1888 in Lord Salisbury's Conservative administration

'Rocks, Rio Agri...' mb-width 2906 Interior view of the ColosseumView of an Italian river course and stone bridge with a landscape of hills and occasional buildings. The river is noted in Mallet's Report of the 1857 Neapolitan Earthquake as demonstrating 'prodigious river erosion'. Inscribed verso in pencil 'Rocks, Rio Agri ? Sarconi et Montemuro' and numbered '35'. Collected by Robert Mallet. Original: albumen print. 1857 1858