Queen Victoria Interviewing Benjamin Disraeli at Osborne House
Not on view
This 1887 engraving reproduces a painting by Wirgman that commemorates a visit by the British primeminister Disraeli to Queen Victoria on July 20, 1878. The minister came to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight to report on the "peace with honor" achieved at the Congress of Berlin (June 13-July 3). Disraeli had attended the congress and helped to draft the treaty that concluded the Russo-Turkish War.