Count Cavour, Cdv By Fratelli Alinari, Albumen Print On Card, Circa 1860

Portrait of Count Cavour by the Alinari Brothers. Carte de Visite format. Original albumen print mounted on card. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861), is a major figure in the Italian unification (Risorgimento). A Piedmontese statesman, he was a minister and later Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and played a key role in the modernization of his country and in the diplomatic and military strategy that led to the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Fratelli Alinari, founded in Florence in 1852 by Leopoldo Alinari, is one of the oldest photographic companies in the world. His brothers Giuseppe and Romualdo joined him in 1854 to create Fratelli Alinari Fotografi Editori, a photographic studio specializing in documenting Italian paintings, sculptures, architecture, and monuments. (Link to the website: https://www.lavalisearlesienne.com/product-page/le-comte-de-cavour-cdv-par-fratelli-alinari