Accession number
PML 141321.10
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1864?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
Caption continues: John Bull-Oh yes, tenez bon je venaitaout de souite, quand vous n'aurez plus besoin de moá [sic] du tout.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "32" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; 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 10 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Caption continues: John Bull-Oh yes, tenez bon je venaitaout de souite, quand vous n'aurez plus besoin de moá [sic] du tout.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "32" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; 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 10 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 255 x 229 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a figure representing Denmark under attack by Prussia and Austria in the background at left; he calls to John Bull for assistance as the latter, who is shown standing in the foreground at right, in the company of a figure in armor with a shield labeled "Albion", turns his back on the struggle as he calls back in response.
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