HM the Empress Eugénie mb-code IX003470 Inscribed 'Plate XXIV

Inscribed 'Plate XXIV

Plate 49 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

The Custom House from the River Thames

Above are the royal arms enclosed in a garter and surmounted by a crown

HM the Empress Eugénie mb-code IX003470 Inscribed 'Plate XXIV'HM the Empress Eugnie', c1879. Caricature portrait of Empress Eugenie de Montijo (1826 1920), wife of Napoleon III of France. She is in mourning next to a bust of her son who died in 1879: A heart as full of sorrow as the sea of sands, a quote from William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. With the death of Eugnie's only child, Napoleon IV, Prince Imperial (1856 1879), died also the last dynastic hope for the restoration of the Bonapartes to the