The Choice of Hercules

The Choice of Hercules

John Gordon Thomson, artist [?]

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun (12 April 1876): 163

Bull (bewildered): — “Which is vice, and which is virtue?”

The figure at the John Bull’s right (our left) seems to be Disraeli while the figure on the other side could be either Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby, both of whom had the kind of sideburns depicted in the cartoon. Since Palmerston was an opponent of Disraeli’s Tories, he seems more likely.

  • Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby
  • Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston

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

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