Another Turn of the Screw

John Gordon Thomson, artist

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun (12 April 1876): 163

Dizzy: — “Go it, Northcote, give him another Pen’orth”

Disraeli, the inquisitor, commands his secretary of the Exchequer, to stretch poor John Bull even further on the rack. Today, it seems odd that the leader of a conservative party would raise taxes, and it also seems particular tone-deaf, if not intentionally insulting, to depict the Jewish Disraeli as a representative of the Inquisition, which committed so many atrocities against Jews.

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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