John Bull sits in a box, umpiring a free trade race between Sir Robert Peel as a tortoise and Lord John Russell as a hare. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.

Selected images from this work

Lord John Russell proposed a fixed duty of eight shillings on foreigh corn as an alternative to Peel's corn bill

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, March 1843 ([London] : A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.6 x 34.5 cm + album.

Race between the hare and the tortoise. HB

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., from no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, p.169

Wellcome Collection 37160i

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