This satirical view of the Oregon question caricatures the self-interested attitudes of European states and leaders toward the dispute. To the right, Polk, urged on by the belligerent General Bunkum, faces left toward Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and Duke Wellington with a lion across the ocean. In the middle ground, O'Connel calls for repeal (of the corn laws). In the background distance, on "neutral Ground," Louis Philippe of France and Czar Nicholas I of Russia look on and comment
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed: E.W.C., On lower right of print: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by J. Baillie in the clerk's office in the Distt. Ct. for the Southern Distt. N.Y., and On lower left of print: Lith & pub. by James Baillie 118 Nassau St. N.Y.
Publisher:
Lith. & pub. by J. Baillie
Subject (Name):
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855, Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861, Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and O'Connel, Daniel, 1775-1847,
