A little check Gladstone - "I'll do a great stroke of business (like Disraeli) and throw this bit of money into the [Suez] Canal the Frenchman is building; and bye I will surely be able to buy him out altogether".

A little check

Gladstone - "I'll do a great stroke of business (like Disraeli) and throw this bit of money into the [Suez] Canal the Frenchman is building; and bye I will surely be able to buy him out altogether".
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Bibliographic Details
Summary:By 1875, Great Britain had become the largest shareholder in the Suez Canal Company (when it bought up the stock of the new Ottoman governor of Egypt); in 1882, Britain invaded Egypt; in March 1957, Egypt took control of the canal and reopened it to commercial shipping.
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: [Dublin] : James J. Lalor, August 4th, 1883.
Subjects:
Gladstone, W. E. > (William Ewart), > 1809-1898
Gladstone, W. E. > (William Ewart), > 1809-1898 > Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain > History > 19th century
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Egypt
Egypt > History > 19th century
Chromolithographs > Irish > 1880-1890.
Editorial cartoons > Irish > 1880-1890.
Political cartoons > Irish > 1880-1890.
Notes:Supplement given away with the Weekly Freeman of August 4th, 1883. Price Three Half-Pence.

Physical description: 1 print : col. lithograph ; 26.8 x 24.8 cm..

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Weekly Freeman 1883 August 4 (A)
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Prints & Drawings
Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland.

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