Hercules Reposing

Wood engraving

Fun (20 June 1868): 157.

Complete caption: “Hercules Reposing. A Statue Lately Erected at Liverpool — J. Br*ght, Sculptor.”

Source: The Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

The cartoonist depicts John Bright, the great Quaker Radical, as a triumphant Hercules not long after the passage of the Reform Bill of 1867.

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