“On the Road to Downing Street

On the Road to Downing Street. Cutting a Disreputable Acquaintance

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Fun 31-32 (21 April 1880): 159

“The majority of the Liberal Party is so large that they are quite independent of the Home Rulers” — Daily Papers.]”

Thomson depicts Gladstone as snubbing the figure who represents members of Parliament committed to Irish Home Rule, but this is more an extrapolation from newspaper reports of the Liberal triumph than Gladstone’s actions.

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

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