Marquis D'Azeglio, 'Il Marchese'

Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape') renders Emanuele Taparelli, Marquis d'Azeglio — Sardinian ambassador to Britain and son of the celebrated Risorgimento statesman Massimo d'Azeglio — as a side-profile figure in formal court dress: dark frock coat, white cravat, and the broad green sash of an Italian order of chivalry. He holds a black top hat behind his back. The caption reads simply 'Il Marchese', the Italian title asserting aristocratic identity rather than diplomatic office. Pellegrini, himself Italian, brings insider sympathy to the likeness: the prominent nose and full grey beard are exaggerated but affectionately so, the posture upright and self-possessed. The plate sits within Vanity Fair's sustained project of mapping Europe's diplomatic corps for London's political readership, framing d'Azeglio as cultured, slightly old-world, and agreeably foreign.