Title

'A game of foot-ball as played by certain Westminster boys', 1858. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'A game of foot-ball as played by certain Westminster boys', 1858. In this cartoon, Derby (in the crown) is on the left with Disraeli representing the Tories, whilst Palmerston (the former prime minister) and Lord John Russell (the little one) are on the right and representing the Liberal Party, a newly developing party forming from Whigs and Peelites. Mr Punch held the view that India was being made the football of British politics during 1858. Two separate India Bills had recently been introduced, but both had been abandoned to avoid destabilising Lord Derby's new minority government. From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 29, 1858.

Date

1858

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Cartoon Collector

Reference

HRM19A89_003

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,8Mb (3,7Mb) / 16,5in x 12,7in / 4948 x 3798 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male sport man men hat India politics country guy clothes bill dress prime minister location century short football kicking crown top hat B&W cartoon MONOCHROME politician Kicked 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century statesman Heritage Image Partnership Hindoostan India Bill Liberal party peelite Tory Whig Benjamin Disraeli Edward Stanley 15th Earl of Derby Earl of Derby satire engraving Unknown Stanley Edward Lord Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield Viscount Hughendon of Hughendon Dizzy Derby Lord Derby Edward Henry Stanley Lord Beaconsfi engraving satire