political cartoon / Freedom of Contract in Ireland, 1882

Political Cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, 25 February 1882. Titled 'Freedom of Contract in Ireland'. Depicting landlords forcing a tenant to sign a lease, with increase in rent, and threatened with eviction. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June, August and October 1882 and February, March, August, September, October, November, December 1883. Given away as supplements with the "Weekly Freeman". Printed in colours, depicting current Irish political events (for the time). Subject - "Freedom of Contract".;