Caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Journal général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie, Volume 8, Issue 1.
Plate numbered "141" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 51 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Print shows the figure of Austria seated with the winged lion of Venice on a chain in the foreground, as Prussia stands with his back to the viewer in the background at left, accompanied by a spotted dog on a leash and looking up at a sign post reading "Holstein".