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Gladstone is welcomed home by a woman who could not cope with her four children any longer, representing the parliamentary constitutency of Midlothian; Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield ploughs a field in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1879.

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Gladstone is welcomed home by a woman who could not cope with her four children any longer, representing the parliamentary constitutency of Midlothian; Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield ploughs a field in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1879.