Making Amends, by William Henry Boucher (1837-1906). Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal (22 August 1877): 188-89. Click on image to enlarge it.
The Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone famously took an axe to trees for exercise well into old age, and Boucher uses this idiosyncrasy to portray him creating a crutch for Turkish casualties of war. The cartoonist, one assumes, is criticizing Gladstone for betraying England’s Turkish allies. But the relationship with Turkey, which Britain supported as an enemy of Tsarist Russia, was riddled with ambiguities, since its empire included Christian countries, such as Greece whose liberty the British supported.
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