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Heureux et fier d'avoir assuré la paix universelle l'excellent John Bull improvise une idylle en l'honneur du printemps [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.22
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [186-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "56" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower right; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 22 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 252 x 217 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows John Bull and a figure in a Balmoral hat representing England seated beneath a tree in the foreground; John Bull, an umbrella by his side, plays a pipe in the company of a sheep and his bulldog, while in the background stand sign posts reading "Danemark", "Amerique", and "Pologne".
Classification
Department