[Menelik II] "Abyssinia"
Vanity Fair. July 29th 1897. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. Vanity Fair, 1897. Lithograph. 395 x 265mm (15½ x 10½"), with large margins. A portrait of emperor Menelik II (1844-1913). Menelik was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until his death. Menelik was a well respected ruler on many fronts, most notably for his coordination of the successful military campaign against the Kingdom of Italy in the first Italo-Ethiopian war, as well as his commitment to modernising the Ethiopian empire and his caring attitude towards the poor.
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