Cartoon, The End of the Rotten Borough
Cartoon, The End of the Rotten Borough -- the Reform Bill of 1832 did away with these so-called rotten boroughs, which were constituencies with a very small electorate. The cartoon shows reformers trying to chop the Rotten Borough tree down, while the anti-reformers are trying to hold it up and preserve it
Picture No
12587178
Media ID
47688293
Size
5290px x 4348px
(3.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Reproduction of a cartoon in The Story of the British People in Pictures, Odhams Press', page 295
Date
circa 1831
