A bear wearing a crown and holding a sword is about to attack a lion lying on a sheet of paper inscribed "Treaty obligation". Pencil drawing.

Date:
1800-1899
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573488i
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The bear seems to represent Russia, and the lion possibly Great Britain. The reference may be to Russian attempts in 1870-1871 to overturn the clauses in a Paris 1856 treaty which deprived Russia of navigation rights in the Dardanelles (Bederman, op. cit.)

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1800-1899

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1 drawing : pencil ; image 26.3 x 35.7 cm

References note

David J. Bederman, 'The 1871 London Declaration, Rebus sic stantibus and a primitivist view of the law of nations', American journal of international law, 1988, 82: 1-40

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Wellcome Collection 573488i

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