Mr Tennyson, Reading In Memoriam to his Sovereign Size:XS: 30 x 20cm representing Liberality on the east

representing Liberality on the east end of the house

This cartoon shows Sir Colin Campbell presenting the leashed tiger of India to Palmerston who

who had been instrumental in bringing down his own party on this issue

A satire linking the cult of Vitruvius (which deduces laws of composition and canons of beauty from the measurements of ancient columns and statues) with the preposterous hairdos of the beau monde

Mr Tennyson, Reading In Memoriam to his Sovereign Size:XS: 30 x 20cm representing Liberality on the east'Mr Tennyson, Reading In Memoriam to his Sovereign', 1904. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904).