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.

Date:
[1879]
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568558i
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Victorian album of political satires.
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view 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.

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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Prosperity is represented by stooks of cereal crops in a field and factories emitting black smoke from their chimneys

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Manchester (Oldham Street) : Abel Heywood & son, [1879]

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1 print (album page 2) : lithograph ; image 34.9 x 47.5 cm

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The setting of Tory rule. Hard times going. The dawn of Liberal day. The good time coming ; C. & B. ; G. H.

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Wellcome Collection 568558i

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