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Louis Désiré Véron and Bernard-Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac dissect Adolphe Thiers; symbolising the ousting of Thiers from the editorship of the Constitutionnel, the paper bought by Véron. Wood engraving by Dumont after A. Bertall, 1851.

An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.

The Duke of Wellington observing the French premier Adolphe Thiers, who is represented as the dwarf General Tom Thumb (?) Lithograph by J. Leech, 1844 (?).

Three long-faced physicians prepare a clyster for a pallid young woman; representing Thiers and two other ministers attending to France amidst her troubles after 1848. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1849.

Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician examining a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block after A. Gill, 1872.

Adolphe Thiers as a chemist dissolving the Garde Nationale throughout France. Colour line block by Lefman and Lourdel after A. Gill, 1871.

Adolphe Thiers and Léon Gambetta as physicians conferring by the screened-off bed of a patient representing the Second Empire (?). Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1874.

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Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877

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The Duke of Wellington observing the French premier Adolphe Thiers, who is represented as the dwarf General Tom Thumb (?) Lithograph by J. Leech, 1844 (?).