Lot 528
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COMIC MAP -- "MAP OF ENGLAND. A Modern St. George and the Dragon!!!" 1888. Cold. lithogr. allegorical map by Tom Merry (pseud. William Mecham). 542 x 347 mm. (A few sm. rep. on v°).
Cartoon 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'. Tom Merry (1852-1902), caricaturist and cartoonist, for many years the chief cartoonist of St. Stephen's Review, being the most prolific in the period 1885-90. - Houfe, p. 388.€ 300
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