Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British statesman and Prime Minister Sir William Howard Russell some dancing

some dancing

The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 celebrated the Entente Cordiale which had been signed by the United Kingdom and France in 1904

also called Magna Carta Libertatum

'Buy a Lace of the poor Blind'

Surrounding the event are a crowd of soldiers

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British statesman and Prime Minister Sir William Howard Russell some dancingRobert Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British statesman and Prime Minister, c1890. Lord Salisbury (1830 1903) was Conservative Prime Minister in 1885, 1886, and 1895 1902. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Calpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.