Picture No | 12917207 |
Date | 1852 |
Description | Cartoon, Eating the Leek |
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Cartoon, Eating the Leek -- if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek (Shakespeare, Henry V). Showing John Bright as a soldier, Richard Cobden as Fluellen and Benjamin Disraeli as Pistol. A satirical comment on the Derby Ministry's declared adherence to the Free Trade policy of Cobden and Bright, which they had previously resisted.
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Source | Cartoon in ‘Punch’, 13 November 1852 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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