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PORTRAIT OF HENRY M. STANLEY, 1879. Etched by T. de Mare after painting by the American G.P.A. Healy. Signed by all three, thus: "T. de Mare, sculpt./Geo.P.A. Healy, pinxt./Faithfully yours, Henry M. Stanley/Paris Jan.25th 1879." Published in London, and in the USA by Knoedler, both in 1879. Henry Morton Stanley was the Anglo-American journalist who located the famed explorer, Dr. David Livingstone at Lake Tanganyika in 1871. Stanley went on to lead several more expeditions to the Congo and Uganda. There is a large body of writings on Stanley's life and adventures, and he was knighted in 1899. He was famous for the line, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
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