political cartoon / Balfour's Plan of Campaign, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 29 September 1888. Titled 'Balfour's Plan of Campaign'. Depicting Balfour and a landlord on a rocking horse, reviewing a line comprised of battering rams and notices to quit, beyond which are flags bearing the words 'starvation' and 'death', with a reference to the 1798 rebellion. 'Bombastes Balfour and his Pasha review their forces for the coming winter campaign against the Irish people'. 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.;