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'Succes D'estime' (At the Theatre Royal, Hague.) Actor-Manager De Staal. 'then I Take It, I May Inform the August Author, Who Is Not Present, That His Piece Is a – ahem – Qualified Success?'

Linley Sambourne (1844-1910)

Price

~~£850~~ £350

Signed

Signed and dated 'aug 2. 1899'

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

12 x 9 inches

Illustrated

Punch, 9 August 1899, page 62

Exhibited

The Illustrators The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010, Chris Beetles Gallery, London, no 68

Premliminary pencil drawing of male figure on reverse.

In August 1898, Tsar Nicholas II proposed an international peace conference, in order to define laws of war and identify war crimes. it took place from May 1899 at the palace of Huis ten Bosch, in the Hague, with the convention being signed on
29 July. as depicted in the present cartoon, the president of the conference was Baron de Staal, the Russian ambassador to the court of St James's.

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