'Too Civil by Half', 1862. Artist: Unknown

'Too Civil by Half', 1862. Artist: Unknown

1-150-320 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

'Too Civil by Half', 1862. Dressed as matrons, the Conservatives Lord Derby (with the glasses) and Disraeli have come to pay a social call on the Liberal Prime Minister, Palmerston. This illustrates the amount of social calling, and the conventions surrounding the practice, that ladies of the middle and upper classes would do. Palmerston is not at all keen that the visit should be repeated as he is determined that they - the Conservatives - should not get in again. In full agreement with this, Lord Russell - usually depicted as a small boy - thumbs his nose just as a small boy would at the visiting 'ladies'.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
Subject
  1. Lord Palmerston: British: Politician, Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  2. Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby: British: Politician
  3. Benjamin Disraeli: British: Statesman, novelist, prime minister, politician, writer, author
  4. Lord John Russell: British: Politician, First Lord of the Treasury, prime minister

Category Hierarchy

Artistic Representations Satires

Artistic Representations Caricatures

History & Politics Politics Politicians


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4945x3813
File Size : 55,241kb


Aliases

  1. 22/02/1862
  1. 0350000150
  1. 1-150-320
  1. 1150320
  1. 150
  1. 22/02/1862

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