Blind Hookey Finish:20-pack 16th May 1968

16th May 1968

18th February 1968

Alan Woollett and Malcolm Manley

A woman in white with long dark hair holds a flower

Found in the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

Blind Hookey Finish:20-pack 16th May 1968Blind Hookey, 1878. Russia, Tukey and Germany are amongst those seated at the card table. John Bull, the representative of the British people, refuses to join the game. This relates to the recent Treaty of San Stefano which laid down the terms for peace between Russia and Turkey. Lord Salisbury had despatched a circular to the Powers objecting to a number of the terms of the Treaty. There was a growing distance between Russia and Britain at this time