Picture No | 11356723 |
Date | 1848 |
Description | Cartoon, John Bull ... Constitutional Plum-Pudding |
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Cartoon, John Bull Showing the Foreign Powers How to Make a Constitutional Plum-Pudding. The plum pudding rests on the tablecloth of the Magna Charta (Carta), and contains key rights and attributes: liberty of the press, common sense, order, trial by jury, religion, true liberty of the subjects. Other powers such as France and the Catholic church represented by the Pope, have 'made a nice mess of it'.
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Source | Cartoon by John Leech in 'Punch', 23 December 1848, page 267 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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