Waiting for Lord Beaconsfield

Fortune and Mistfortune. Holiday Time or the Dead Season

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1923), artist

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun (18 September 1878): 167

The cartoonist portrays Disraeli wearing the Crown with which he endowed him once he became Lord Beaconsfield. Relaxing in a hammock, Disraeli smokes a Turkish cigarette, a box of which lies open on a book entitled Lives of Great Men. [Commentary continued below.]

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

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