[Naples 1859]
this picture refers to political prisoners in Naples under the regime of Ferdinand II which aroused a lot of disgust in England and sympathy for the prisoners, a batc of whom were warmly welcomed in Bristol (and later London) in 1859.
1823 - 1909.
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