Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:L: 75 x 60cm Queen of Sicilia and wife

Queen of Sicilia and wife of Leontes in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

plate IV of The Harlot's Progress

Today it is known as Canada House and is occupied by the Canadian High Commission

There was again opposition from the usual quarters

Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:L: 75 x 60cm Queen of Sicilia and wifeCyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Field's (1819 1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid. He later became a prominent promoter of New York's elevated railroad and owner of two newspapers. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.