Comic map of the British Isles, indicating the political situation in 1880. By Fred W....

On this pro-Conservative poster, published during the election campaign of 1880, a robed Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, deals a death blow to the official Liberal leader, Lord Hartington. Meanwhile, in a reference to his recent Midlothian speaking campaign, William Gladstone is shown as a Scottish windbag, opportunistically profiting from current discontents both at home and abroad. Ireland is being led astray by an evil adviser though the union with England actually ‘aids her … materially to support her heavy burden’ Comic map of the British Isles, indicating the political situation in 1880. By Fred W. Rose. Author: Rose, Frederick W. / London: G.W. Bacon & Co, [1880] Source/Shelfmark: Maps.1078.(45) 47 x 58 cm.