John Tenniel's Political Caricatures and Cartoons in "Punch"

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Disraeli and Gladstone

• Performer and Critic
• The Two Augurs
• Tinct. Reform. Compt.

India

• The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger
• Justice
• An Appeal
• The New Star of India (Curzon)

Disraeli Makes Queen Victoria Empress of India

• New Crowns for Old Ones
• Empress and Earl, or One Good Turn Deserves Another
• The Queen with Two Heads

Disraeli's Policies

• The "Pas de Deux" (Russia)

Africa (the Anglo-Zulu War)

• A Vote of Thanks (to Lts. John Merriott Chard and Gonville Bromhead)
• A Lesson ("Despise not your enemy")
• A Black "White Elephant"

Egypt

• Nurse Gladstone
• Ruling the Waves
• Waking-Up!
• The Westminster Wizard; or, the Downy One of Downing Street
• The Dioscuri in Egypt
• Hold On! An Allegory of the Banks of the Nile —Mrs. Malaprop
• A Mutual Understanding
• Too Late!
• Shoulder to Shoulder! or, as it ought to be

Turkey

• Kismet!
• The ‘European Concert’, Tuning up the English Overture
• In Liquidation
• Transient Triumph
• The Friend, — in Need!
• Argumentum ad Pocketum
• The Cheeky Chick
• Compensation for Disturbance
• Rectification

Visit of the Shah of Persia

• Title page of Punch, Vol. 64, 1873 (depicting the visit of the Shah)
• Missis’s Orders
• More Cry than Wool
• Tired Out
• "Persia Won!"

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