Albumen print, 100 by 145mm, mounted on cardboard, 103 by 166mm. Small crease to lower right corner, slightly affecting print. Contemporary manuscript description verso. Photograph by Grossman in Dover, published by G. Houghton & Son, 1890.
A rare and unusual image depicting Stanley on a boat, returning to Dover, most likely after the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Surrounded by the great and the good, he could hardly look more eminent.
