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Pages in a book; left, a Liberal page illustrated with a happy child, a cornucopia and a medallion of Gladstone; right, a Tory page illustrated with an unhappy child and a serpent depicted with the face of Disraeli. Engraving after W. Dewane, ca. 1880.

Gladstone, asleep in a chair next to a fire, has a nightmare vision of Disraeli showing Queen Victoria celebrating Christmas dinner with foreigners, including a Chinese man, a native American, an African man and an Indian man. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 25 December 1886.

British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880 / John F. Beeler.

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British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880 / John F. Beeler.

Gladstone, asleep in a chair next to a fire, has a nightmare vision of Disraeli showing Queen Victoria celebrating Christmas dinner with foreigners, including a Chinese man, a native American, an African man and an Indian man. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 25 December 1886.

Pages in a book; left, a Liberal page illustrated with a happy child, a cornucopia and a medallion of Gladstone; right, a Tory page illustrated with an unhappy child and a serpent depicted with the face of Disraeli. Engraving after W. Dewane, ca. 1880.