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  • An American (politician ?): head and shoulders portrait. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • An American (politician ?): head and shoulders portrait. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • The ghost of the revolutionary politician Mirabeau giving an address. Coloured etching, 1791.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
  • A politician engrossed in reading the "Gazetteer" and burning the brim of his hat with a candle while he does so. Etching by J. K. Sherwin after W. Hogarth.
  • A young woman implores her father to allow her to marry a politician who supported a different candidate in the Middlesex by-election from the one favoured by the father. Engraving by J. Miller, 1769.
  • A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring, none of whom are electorally valuable. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.