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.