Title from text within image. Attributed to Richard Doyle. Publisher from advertisement to the series. Cover to a series of 24 pen lithographs satirizing events surrounding the Treaty of Nanking ratified in 1843 after the conclusion of the First Opium War. From an advertisement pasted on verso of sheet: Clever humorous works by Messrs. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ... The brother to the moon's visit to the court of Queen Vic., twenty-four subjects, forming a companion work to The christening of Prince Taffy ... Publisher's advertisement pasted on verso of sheet: Clever humorous works by Messrs. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, Corner of Sackville Street.
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