2-703-994 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A General at Sea', 1897. Caricature of an army officer in Napoleonic-era uniform, sitting on a wooden toy horse. 'At sea' here implies incompetence. From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]