political cartoon / Balfour's Pic-Nic, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 18 August 1888. Titled 'Balfour's Pic-Nic'. Depicting Balfour serving a picnic food, labelled 'slander' and 'lies' to four ladies. Balfour, finding no sensible people will listen to him, goes to a 'Primrose Pic-nic' and entertains the Dames. 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.;