2-356-627 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Political Pas de Deux', 1878 (1895). Lord Salisbury and Disraeli, both admitted to the Order of the Garter for their efforts at the Congress of Berlin, held to re-draw the map of the Balkans after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Prime Minister Disraeli had made his acceptance of the honour conditional on Lord Salisbury, then Foreign Secretary, receiving it as well. From the finished pencil drawing for the Punch cartoon. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1895.