John Tenniel
1820-1914
"Between Two Fires"
1875
Image: 6 1/8 x 8 inches (155 x 203 mm) mat opening
Graphite on paper.
1986.2101
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from published caption.
Cartoon caption continues: "Prince Bismarck has intimated to the new Spanish Government that its recognition by Germany must be conditional on the withdrawal of the suspension the two suppressed Protestant Journals, and the re-opening of the closed Protestant Meeting-House." "When the Pope sent his blessing to King Alfonso, and renewed his Nuncio's commission at Madrid, it was under the assurance that the old ecclesiastical and educational supremacy of the Holy Church would be restored."--Newspaper Correspondence from Spain.
Drawing by John Tenniel for a cartoon for Punch, 1875, v. 68, p. 37.
Cartoon caption continues: "Prince Bismarck has intimated to the new Spanish Government that its recognition by Germany must be conditional on the withdrawal of the suspension the two suppressed Protestant Journals, and the re-opening of the closed Protestant Meeting-House." "When the Pope sent his blessing to King Alfonso, and renewed his Nuncio's commission at Madrid, it was under the assurance that the old ecclesiastical and educational supremacy of the Holy Church would be restored."--Newspaper Correspondence from Spain.
Drawing by John Tenniel for a cartoon for Punch, 1875, v. 68, p. 37.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with the artist's moogram at lower right; in pencil on verso, "Tenniel 2 drawings the pair £5".
Summary
Drawing shows the young King Alfonso XII of Spain, standing between the figures of Pope Pius IX and Bismark.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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