Gladstone is welcomed home by a woman who could not cope with her four children any longer, representing the parliamentary constitutency of Midlothian; Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield ploughs a field in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1879.

Date:
[1879?]
Reference:
568599i
Part of:
Victorian album of political satires.
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The woman's eldest child represents the Conservative former member of Parliament for Midlothian, the Earl of Dalkeith (William Montagu Douglas-Scott, subsequently 6th Duke of Buccleuch)

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1879?]

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1 print (album page 13) : lithograph ; image 27 x 36 cm

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The man we want ...

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Wellcome Collection 568599i

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