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| Picture No | 11052442 |
| Date | 1886 |
| Description | Cartoon, Queen Victoria's Christmas, A Vision |
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Cartoon, Queen Victoria's Christmas, A Vision (based on Dickens' story, A Christmas Carol). Gladstone as Scrooge sleeps while Disraeli (who had died five years earlier) shows him a vision of Queen Victoria feasting with various international figures. Gladstone's Liberal party had lost the election that year, and the Conservatives under Lord Salisbury had come to power.
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| Source | Cartoon by Tom Merry, lithograph in ‘St Stephen's Review’, 25 December 1886 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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