W.E. Gladstone as Dr. Faustus making a pact with Mephistopheles in order to satisfy his political ambitions. Lithograph by J.M Rogier, 12 December 1885.

  • Rogier, Jean Marius, 1851-1928.
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Dec.r 12th 1885
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564639i
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Mephistopheles offeres to Gladstone a steaming potion labelled "Ambition". Upper left, a vision of Britannia as Marguerite. Apparently a foreshadowing of the "Hawarden Kite", a leak to the press on 12 December to the effect that Gladstone favoured Home Rule in Ireland, leading the Irish Nationalists to switch their support from the Conservatives to Gladstone's Liberal Party, thus giving the latter a parliamentary majority

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[London] : [publisher not identified], Dec.r 12th 1885 (London : "Ink-Photo." Sprague & Co.)

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1 print : lithograph ; image 46 x 31.2 cm

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The temptation of Faust (Alas, poor Marguerite). St. Stephen's Review presentation cartoon. Dec.r 12th 1885. J.M. Rogier

References note

M.R.D. Foot, The Hawarden Kite', Journal of Liberal Democrat history, 1998, 20: 26-32 (on the sequence of events)

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Wellcome Collection 564639i

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