2-995-555 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The first visit of Victor Emmanuel to the camp of the national army at St. Angelo - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860. Vittorio Emanuele II became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century. 'On the morning of the 27th October, Victor Emmanuel, accompanied by a few of his staff, visited the left bank of the Volturno and the camp of the Garibaldini. As soon as his presence was known to the troops they crowded the sides of the road, and gave him a most enthusiastic reception. In the rear of our Engraving is a house which had been occupied by an advanced post of Garibaldini previous to the bridge being thrown across, and its surface shows good evidence of the rifle and cannon practice of the Neapolitans, who, in the hope of dislodging their foe, kept up an incessant fight upon it. On the background rises the Hill of St. Angelo'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.