Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<News>: (1) THE RUSSIAN QUESTION DEALT WITH ON A COUCH : — Yes mister Coquardeau, the ambition of the Russian Colossus becomes insatiable... it is already not enough for him to have blown up the Black Sea and to have smashed all the seaports in the Levant, now today the same Colossus makes ready to seize the Dardanelles... I am of a mind to suffer none of it mister Coquardeau!
Date | 1853 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 24.2 x 21.7 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower left: h. D; numbered on the stone, lower right: 1230 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 2363 (ii/ii), Tobu III-410 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1684 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 136.