Extraordinary Mildness of The Political Season Size:M: 60 x 45cm 1638 (1809)

1638 (1809)

'Procession of the Cod Company from St Giles's to Billingsgate'

'In a high saliuation [sic] at the point of death'

the Hermitage Rooms and Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery

Norman Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth

Extraordinary Mildness of The Political Season Size:M: 60 x 45cm 1638 (1809)'Extraordinary Mildness of The Political Season', 1869. The new Prime Minister, Gladstone, meets with the former Prime Minister, Disraeli. The new session of parliament had just started and, in this cartoon, the two men present each other with flowery compliments. However, each man hides behind his back the birch with which he hopes to belabour the opposition during the new session. From Punch, or the London Charivari, February 27, 1869.