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  • Benjamin Disraeli as a blackface minstrel wearing a crown and holding an umbrella. Engraving by W. Dewane, 1879.
  • Benjamin Disraeli as a barber called "Ben Jingo" is cutting the face of John Bull while shaving him. Engraving (?) by W. Dewane, 188-.
  • Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.
  • William Gladstone chasing with a stick a dog with the face of Benjamin Disraeli. Engraving after W. Dewane, ca. 1880.
  • Disraeli leaving Parliament with heavy luggage (war, imperialism, ruin, distress ...) on his shoulders; he is followed by Stafford Northcote. Engraving by W. Dewane, 1880.
  • Pages in a book; left, a Liberal page illustrated with a happy child, a cornucopia and a medallion of Gladstone; right, a Tory page illustrated with an unhappy child and a serpent depicted with the face of Disraeli. Engraving after W. Dewane, ca. 1880.
  • Pancakes.
  • Pancakes.
  • Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.
  • 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.
  • The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880: people are burning in a ballot box, Disraeli is kissing a Turk representing tyranny and crime, a Zulu warrior looks on, and broken puppet of Lord Dalkeith lies in the foreground. Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
  • Gladstone is welcomed home by a woman who could not cope with her four children any longer, representing the parliamentary constitutency of Midlothian; Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield ploughs a field in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1879.
  • Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone and John Bright depicted as bees around a beehive; representing the United Kingdom General Election of 1880. Engraving by W. Dewane after himself, March 1880.
  • The Midlothian campaign of 1879-80; a horserace between Lord Rosebery riding a horse with the face of Gladstone (the Liberal candidate) and Benjamin Disraeli riding a horse with the face of Lord Dalkeith (the Conservative candidate). Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
  • The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880; Benjamin Disraeli is playing with a puppet of Lord Dalkeith while Stafford Northcote is losing the money of the Tory exchequer; Gladstone and Rosebery in the background. Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
  • Queen Victoria, seated in an armchair by an open fire, day-dreaming about illustrious men of her reign. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.