Print shows the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, sitting on a high fence; two dogs representing the parlimentarian John Bright and the manufacturer and free-trade advocate Richard Cobden on one side. A bull, branded with an 'R', representing the oppositio...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Punch
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, Sir, Bart., 1788-1850, Bright, John, 1811-1889, Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865, and Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
Subject (Topic):
Corn laws (Great Britain), Free trade, and Oregon question
This satirical view of the Oregon question caricatures the self-interested attitudes of European states and leaders toward the dispute. To the right, Polk, urged on by the belligerent General Bunkum, faces left toward Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, an...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lith. & pub. by J. Baillie
Subject (Name):
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855, Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861, Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and O'Connel, Daniel, 1775-1847,
Print shows the British Prime Minister Robert Peel and the United States President John Polk standing on a dueling ground with their seconds; Peel is in foreground center, turned toward viewer, pistol in his left hand; his second, John Russell, says, ...
Alternative Title:
Oregon question
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Punch
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, Sir, Bart., 1788-1850 and Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),
