“Who’s to Pay?”

John Tenniel, artist

Swain, engraver

1878

Punch (7 December 1878)

India. “I see your proposed improvement: But I can’t afford —”

Agent. “O No, Madam, of course not. Parliament meets to-morrow, and I expect we shall soon make a satisfactory arrangement with Mr. Bull!”

A Disillusion (response)

Benjamin Disraeli (homepage)

Punch cartoons about Disraeli

British India (homepage)

Image capture and text by George P. Landow

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