Spotprent over de geruchten van annexatie van België en Luxemburg door Frankrijk en Duitsland, 1870 1870

"Spotprent over de geruchten van annexatie van België en Luxemburg door Frankrijk en Duitsland, 1870" is a satirical print by Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, created in 1870. The print depicts a bear representing Belgium and Luxembourg being robbed by a fox representing France and a man representing Germany. The caption reads: “How Brown, by Reinart, is deceived in the planned conspiracy to steal, and how Brown in the booby-trap the skin from snout and paws left sitting." This political cartoon, created during a period of heightened tension between European nations, uses animal allegory to comment on the perceived threat of French and German annexation of Belgium and Luxembourg.