An Appeal to the Public

An Appeal to the Public

John Gordon Thomson

Fun (24 March 1880): 119

“The smallest contributions of votes or support thankfully received.”

The caricaturist portrays Disraeli as a blind beggar in front of John Bull’s house wearing a small placard stating, not “Pity the Blind” but “Pity a Poor Old Tory Party.”

Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust web version of a copy in the University of Minnesota library.

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