Title: "peace" assured
abstract: illustration shows william e. Gladstone dressed as an old woman wearing keys labeled "suez, gibraltor, [and] herat", pushing john bull into a kissing embrace with tsar nicholas ii who is, likewise, being pushed by a woman labeled "empress of russia". They are suspended over a thin crevice emitting smoke as though it was a volcano about to erupt; a cut-away view shows a munitions foundry just below the surface of the ground, furiously producing ordnance. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 17, no. 427, (1885 may 13), centerfold.;copyright 1885 by keppler & schwarzmann.;title from item. Date: 1885.
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