political cartoon / Check-mate (next move), 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 9 June 1888. Titled 'Check-mate (next move)'. Depicting Balfour playing chess against the Land League, 'I've lost all my men but the Castle and one Bishop, and I can't see any way out of it'. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF IRELAND FOR THE GREATER PORTION OF 1888. Taken from the Freeman's Journal, Dublin, 1888.;