Odo: Lord Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill

Signed by 'Spy' (Leslie Ward), this chromolithograph plate — captioned simply "Odo" — caricatures Lord Odo Russell (1829–1884), British diplomat and then Ambassador to the German Empire. Ward exaggerates Russell's most distinctive features: a large, bulbous nose, a wild auburn beard, and dishevelled hair piled atop an oversized head balanced on a compact body. He sits cross-legged on a spindle-legged chair, hands folded contentedly over his stomach, radiating self-satisfied ease — a pointed comment on the comfortable insider status of aristocratic diplomacy. The grey trousers and dark frock coat are rendered with Ward's characteristic precision, grounding the grotesque head in sartorial respectability.