William Gladstone keeping his head down in the run up to the general election of 1892


Cartoon from an original Punch or the London Charivari Magazine June 25 1892 by Harry Furniss (1854-1925). Gladstone as leader of the opposition in the run up to general election 1892, claiming he had no time to attend meetings with competing interest groups. He formed a minority Liberal government later in the year.


Size: 4787px × 6270px
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1892, 19th, association, beckoning, busy, caricature, cartoon, century, claims, competing, declining, election, engraving, era, funny, furniss, general, gladstone, harry, head, home, humorous, illustration, image, ireland, irish, keeping, labour, liberal, meetings, nose, offending, office, parody, picture, politicians, politics, punch, radicalism, rights, rule, run, satire, sheltering, side, tapping, umbrella, victorian, votes, william, wily, winking, womens