Unidentified photographer / Unidentified artist 1874 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
Engraving based on a photograph 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Archive Farms The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2020.556k
Cavour, was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont–Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy