England & Wales. Merry (Tom, pseud. William Mecham), Map of England, A Modern St. George and the Dragon!!!, published St. Stephen's Review, 1888, colour lithographic allegorical map, old folds, 505 x 320mm. A satirical map illustrating the 1886 Irish Home Rule crisis. The map was published in the Conservative leaning St.Stephens Review. It shows the Tory leader, Lord Salisbury, as a rather corpulent St George, spearing the dragon Gladstone, who was the Liberal Prime Minister. Gladstone's tongue is labelled ' Home Rule'. (1)
England & Wales. Merry (Tom, pseud. William Mecham), Map of England, A Modern St. George and the Dragon!!!, published St. Stephen's Review, 1888, colour lithographic allegorical map, old folds, 505 x 320mm. A satirical map illustrating the 1886 Irish Home Rule crisis. The map was published in the Conservative leaning St.Stephens Review. It shows the Tory leader, Lord Salisbury, as a rather corpulent St George, spearing the dragon Gladstone, who was the Liberal Prime Minister. Gladstone's tongue is labelled ' Home Rule'. (1)
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