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?]
Physical description
1 print (album page 13) : lithograph ; image 27 x 36 cm
Lettering
The man we want ...
Reference
Wellcome Collection 568599i
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