The New ‘Great Deliverer’

“The New ‘Great Deliverer’

Wood engraving

Fun (4 April 1864)

Complete caption: “The New ‘Great Deliverer.’ Done in Brass. Dedicated Respectfully to the Orangemen of Ireland, This 1st of April.

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

The cartoonist mockingly depicts Disraeli as a triumphant Cesar Augustus, but the statue is only brass and dedicated on April Fool’s Day to the Protestant Orangeman of Ireland.

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