Jesse Collings. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1888.
- Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922.
- Date:
- Dec.r 1 1888
- Reference:
- 820908i
- Part of:
- Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)
- Pictures
About this work
Also known as
Three acres and a cow
Description
Advocate of free education and of land reform. Mayor of Birmingham from 1878 to 1880. Liberal Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1880-1886; Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bordesley, Birmingham, 1886-1918. "It was he who, in 1885, began to use the phrase 'three acres and a cow', which for many years was the war-cry of the land-reformers" (Oxford dictionary of national biography). Author of Land reform (1906), The colonization of rural Britain (1914), and The Great War: its lessons and warnings (1915) (ibid.)
Publication/Creation
[London] : Vanity fair, Dec.r 1 1888 ([London] : Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, lith.)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 31.5 x 19 cm
Contributors
Lettering
"3 acres and a cow". Spy. Vanity fair.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 820908i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores