"La Belle Alliance, 1855"

Wood engraving

Punch (1 September 1855): 87

Queen Victoria pets the French Eagle on his perch while the French Empress pets the muzzle of the British Lion, and Albert lights the cigar of the Emperor of France.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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