Lithographic caricature of Panizzi by 'Ape' ['Men of the Day. No 77'], with letterpress.

Paper dimensions roughly fifteen inches by ten and a half wide; print dimensions twelve inches by seven and a quarter wide. Good clear image with border a little dusty and aged. Full-length image of a dour Panizzi standing at a desk holding a book. Page of letterpress on separate leaf of same dimensions, containing spirited account ['he sought refuge in Switzerland, but he was expelled discreditably from that country, [...] Keeper of the Printed Books [...] the man in all Europe most competent to fill it. His extraordinary knowledge of all the literature and most of the languages of the Earth [...] so amiable a man that he has worked the Library up to its present position without making an enemy, [!] [...] known to the officials with whom he has had to do as Pan the deity of the British Museum. [...]'