Count Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen, 'Glick'

Leslie Ward's chromolithograph presents Gleichen—Queen Victoria's grand-nephew and a serving Grenadier Guards officer—as a squat, barrel-chested figure nearly overwhelmed by his towering black bearskin. The exaggeration is architectural: the hat consumes a third of the composition, shrinking the man beneath into something almost comical. He wears the dark undress frock coat of the Guards, gold buttons bright, holding white gloves in one hand with practiced nonchalance. The caption reads 'Glick', a phonetic rendering of his German surname that winks at his Saxe-Coburg lineage in an era of creeping anti-German sentiment at the British court. Ward's treatment is affectionate rather than savage—Gleichen was well-liked in society—but the nickname quietly marks him as foreign, however impeccably uniformed.