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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.
Source Cartoon in ‘Punch’, 13 November 1852
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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