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  • Charles Bradlaugh as a gorilla in a zoo. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • Gladstone and three other politicians involved in Irish politics as Christmas drinking companions. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 24 December 1887.
  • Gladstone, asleep in a chair next to a fire, has a nightmare vision of Disraeli showing Queen Victoria celebrating Christmas dinner with foreigners, including a Chinese man, a native American, an African man and an Indian man. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 25 December 1886.
  • Queen Victoria, seated in an armchair by an open fire, day-dreaming about illustrious men of her reign. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • W.E. Gladstone and other Liberal politicians as prisoners being released from prison; relatives and friends waiting for them at the gate. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 18 December 1886.
  • Lord Salisbury opens a briefcase representing the "Conservative programme" and finds inside a corset representing "Fair trade". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 17 December 1887.
  • In a dormitory, a man is trying to get into a bed already occupied by W.E. Gladstone and another man. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 7 February 1891.
  • Three politicians accused of treason being evicted by the police. Colour lithograph by T. Merry after himself, 8 March 1890.
  • A policeman (Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville) restrains another policeman (Gladstone) from interfering in a fight between the Mahdi and General Gordon next to Cleopatra's Needle on the River Thames. Colour lithograph by T. Merry, 1884.
  • A British family is gloomily watching a procession of German immigrants practising their trades in Great Britain. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 2 October 1886.
  • W.E. Gladstone in the character of Mr Pecksniff gestures away a persistent newspaper seller (C.S. Parnell?). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry after himself, 17 March 1888.
  • Victorian politicians sympathetic to Irish Home Rule in the guise of Guy Fawkes and his conspirators breaking into the undercroft of the House of Lords. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • British politicians gambling at Ascot. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 14 June 1884.
  • William Gladstone, dressed as Juliet, is sobbing at the departure of Joseph Chamberlain, dressed as Romeo, who is about to leave through the window. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 27 March 1886.
  • Charles Bradlaugh being arrested by the police in 1881 for refusing to take the oath as a Member of Parliament, and subsequently rejoicing at the passage of his Oaths Bill in 1888. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1888.
  • A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.
  • W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
  • Men on rowing boats heading towards Khartoum, Sudan; representing the relief of General Gordon's expedition. Colour lithograph by Gilbert & Rivington after Tom Merry, 6 September 1884.
  • W.E. Gladstone as a jockey, falling from his horse. Colour lithograph by Gilbert & Rivington after Tom Merry, 1884.
  • British politicians as huntsmen arriving at a river representing the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act 1887. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, has been stabbed by his wife's lover (W.E. Gladstone) with a sword on which is written "duplicity". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 7 November 1885, after W. Hogarth.
  • A man (Lord Hartington) and his wife (Radicalism) having breakfast in a richly decorated room, the morning after a card party. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry after W. Hogarth, 17 October 1885.
  • A woman on whose dress is written "Radicalism" has taken some "disestablishment poison" after reading that her lover has been hanged; the dog is eating the meal on the table, which is inscribed with "capital". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 14 November 1885, after W. Hogarth.
  • A countess's dress is inscribed with "Radicalism" and her lawyer (W.E. Gladstone) is pointing at a screen on which is written "verbosity, deception, lies". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 31 October 1885, after W. Hogarth.
  • C.S. Parnell as Macbeth and Dr. Cronin as Banquo's ghost. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1889.
  • Supporters of W.E. Gladstone, wearing 16th century armour, are being led to the Tower of London for imprisonment. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 9 April 1887.
  • British politicians including W.E. Gladstone, Rosebery, Chamberlain and Earl Spencer, in the role of British soldiers in Crimea in the painting 'The roll call' by Elizabeth Thompson (Butler). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 13 February 1886.