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Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "8" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 3 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Print shows the disgruntled figure of Mars bristling with weaponry and seated at right on a pile of cannon and cannon balls with a shield labeled "Albion"; in the background at left, John Bull embraces an American soldier, with the masts of a ship visible at right.