Kismet!

Kismet!

John Tenniel, artist

Swain, engraver

Punch (17 July 1880)

The Turkish sultan holding a paper on which appear the words “conference resolutions” as he sits cross-legged, apparently unaware of “coercion” and a keg on gunpowder beneath his seat.

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