Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1892.

Baron Methuen, of Corsham Court, Corsham, Wiltshire. Army officer, served in the Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882, and in the Boer Wars (1899-1902). "Apparently a military 'Prussophile', he attempted to introduce some German practices into the British army ... He commanded the home district from 1892 to 1897, and organized the armed forces in the 1897 jubilee procession" (Oxford dictionary of national biography), hence the lettering on this print

Bears a baronial coronet, upper right

[London] : Vanity fair, Dec.r 17, 1892 ([London] : Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, lith.)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 31.7 x 18.6 cm

"The home district". Spy. Vanity fair.

Wellcome Collection 821911i