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.

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.

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