Men sitting around a candle-lit table, talking about politics, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.

[Norwich] : [C.J.W. Winter], [1869]

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26.5 x 37 cm

"Olden time" John Bull at a country club. Drawn and lithographed by CJWW from a design by Woodward. The chairman on the right says "Gemmen, as landlord to this here pullitical and larned society, I begs leave to mention the subject of debate for this hire night's iddification. "Do the present ministry act right or wrong?" For my part I am undecidedly of opinion, that they act wrong to a man." The man on his left replies "Mr Topson, you wery right in vat you adwance.". The man on his left replies "There is no weight, no stability. Broad-bottom'd to be sure, but they want the stamina, the consequence, which I should through into their council.". a man reading a newspaper says "No news in the (?) I see", while the next man, seated opposite a very small man,says "It is astonishing how many little upstarts there are in the world"; smoke from his pipe is labelled "All smoke". Another man says "You and I know better thing, Mr Gubbins", to which the man at the end of the table says "Yes yes, Mr Jenkins, things vould be wery differently managed if you and I vere at the head of affairs!!"

Wellcome Collection 32398i