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Gordon Brown
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Phillip Hammond
Martin Rowson (1959 - )
The Unskilfull [sic] Waggoner or the State Waggon Bogged!!!
Charles Williams
John Bull on a Bed of Roses
British 19th century unknown
The Quaker, and the Commissioners of Excise
George Moutard Woodward (1760 - 1809)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
No.11: Blessings of Britain – or – Swarm of Tax-Gatherers. “All with United Force Combine to Drive the Lazy Drones from the Laborious Hive” (Virgil)
Charles Williams
Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1857-1923): “Good Works”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
An Unwelcome Visit
George Moutard Woodward (1760 - 1809)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Answer to John Bull’s Complaint
William, ("Paul Pry") Heath (1795 - 1840)
A Tenant At Will
Charles Jameson (after) Grant
David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (1871-1940): “Bal”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Droits, Droits, Droits!!!!
Isaac Cruikshank (1756 - 1811)
The Property Tax
Charles Williams
Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922): “Lulu”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
John Bull viewing Billy’s Preparations for his Birthday
Charles Williams
New Brooms for John Bull, or Sweeping Measures recommended by the late Chancellor
British 19th century unknown
David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore (1838-1919): “hereditary eloquence.”
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
John Bull at his Studies, attended by his Guardian Angel
British 18th century unknown
William Patrick Adam (1823-1881): “The Past”
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
The End of Parliament
British 19th century unknown
The Progress of the State and Government, 1842
British 19th century unknown
The Income Tax!! or Statesmen contriving Everlasting Ways and Means for Carrying on the Peace!
John Lewis Marks (1769? - )
Meeting of the Monied Interest
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone (1854-1930): “Young Hopeful”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Modern Atlas’s tottering under a Globe of their own Formation!!
Charles Williams
Leap Year,or John Bull’s Peace Establishment
Charles Williams
Doctor Sangrado Relieving John Bull of the Yellow Fever
Isaac Cruikshank (1756 - 1811)
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938): “New South Wales”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
A Visitor to John Bull for the Year 1799, or the Assess’d Taxes taking their Leave
British 18th century unknown
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849-1917): “He has decided where Churches disagreed”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Gerard James Noel (1823-1911): “A Nice Little Fellow”
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
Death Extraordinary
William, ("Paul Pry") Heath (1795 - 1840)
The Free-Born Briton or a Perspective of Taxation
William Dent
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and 1st Earl of Midlothian (1847-1929): “Little Bo-Peep”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox (1821-1886): “A Man of Fashion and Politics”
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
The British Lion
British 18th century unknown
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837-1916): “The Nobleman of the Garden”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Sir Schomberg Kerr McDonnell (1861-1915): “He was Lord Salisbury’s Private Secretary”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Sick of the Property Tax or Ministerial Influnza [sic]
George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878)
“The Friend of the People” & his Petty-New-Tax-Gatherer, paying John Bull a visit
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
The Doctor Administering his Gilded Pill
Charles Williams
A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain – or – John Bull Swamped in the Flood of New Taxes – Cormorants Fishing in the Stream
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
More Visitors to John Bull, or the Assess’d Taxes!!!
Richard Newton (1777 - 1798)
1796 and All That
Chris Orr (1943 - )
“The Friend of the People” & his Petty-New-Tax-Gatherer, paying John Bull a visit
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
Lewis Guy Phillips (1831-1887) soldier: “Order at Wimbledon”
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
O the Roast Beef of Old England (The Gate of Calais)
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Charles Mosley
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