“A Sign of the Times” from “Fun” (1878)

A Sign of the Times; or giving up the old house

Signed “Fusbos” [Henry Grattan Plunkett], artist

The Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun (27 June 1868): 167

The cartoonist portrays Disraeli sawing the beam on which he is sitting, from which hangs a pub sign for “The Old Pam’s Head” — that is, he is parting ways with Palmerston, Pam.

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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