Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-height 6936 draughtsman and sculptor

draughtsman and sculptor

Fittipaldi won his second World Drivers' Championship with Mclaren in 1974

Half length seated portrait of Huddart

5th July 1987

'Mrs Midnight's Animal Comedians'

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-height 6936 draughtsman and sculptorFerdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1875. De Lesseps (1805 1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope, completing the project in 1869. In 1880 he then went on to make the first attempt at building a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. A combination of the difficult terrain, a