William Howard Russell, Esq, LLD, Irish journalist Bartolomeo Pergami Mary's Lighthouse in the distance

Mary's Lighthouse in the distance from the crowded beach

The Admiralty had issued blanket instructions that stated that escaped slaves should either be refused asylum

Also showing two horsemen in the right foreground

Sir David Wilkie

William Howard Russell, Esq, LLD, Irish journalist Bartolomeo Pergami Mary's Lighthouse in the distanceWilliam Howard Russell, Esq, LLD, Irish journalist, 1876. Russell was a war correspondent for the Times who covered the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, American Civil War and the Franco Prussian War. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson