Description

Chris Britton and Reg Presley behind drummer Ronnie Bond

He had taken the throne only two years earlier

This cartoon shows Britain holding a teapot in the shape of a large gun and pointing it straight at the alarmed Chinese

The story behind the cartoon is the trial of the Comte de Montalembert

At the Dance mb-code 1238038 Chris Britton and Reg Presley'At the Dance', 19th century, (1930). Illustration from The Painter of Victorian Life, a study of Constantin Guys with an introduction and a translation of Baudelaire's Peintre de la Vie Moderne, by P G Konody, (The Studio Ltd, London, 1930).

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