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Gordon Brown
AAH
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Alistair Darling. “With hindsight, that wasn’t the best time to ask the Chancellor which music he prefers – Johnny Cash or Northern Rock…”
Tony Hall
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Phillip Hammond
Martin Rowson (1959 - )
The Unskilfull [sic] Waggoner or the State Waggon Bogged!!!
Charles Williams
The Island
Stephen Walter (1975 - )
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Mrs Pott
Edward Burra (1905 - 1976)
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)
“Just Pretend it’s not There George….”
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
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
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(John) Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (1904-1978): “Hey Presto! Oops….”
Stanley Franklin (1930 - 2004)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Author & Satirist
Francis, (studio) Bindon (1690 - 1765)
An Unwelcome Visit
George Moutard Woodward (1760 - 1809)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
A Tenant At Will
Charles Jameson (after) Grant
Droits, Droits, Droits!!!!
Isaac Cruikshank (1756 - 1811)
The Property Tax
Charles Williams
John Bull viewing Billy’s Preparations for his Birthday
Charles Williams
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986) Chancellor of the Exchequer; Prime Minister: “When I hear the word culture I reach for my Gunn”
Victor ("Vicky") Weisz (1913 - 1966)
New Brooms for John Bull, or Sweeping Measures recommended by the late Chancellor
British 19th century unknown
John Bull at his Studies, attended by his Guardian Angel
British 18th century unknown
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? - )
A Tenant at Will
Charles Jameson Grant
Modern Atlas’s tottering under a Globe of their own Formation!!
Charles Williams
Leap Year,or John Bull’s Peace Establishment
Charles Williams
Salus Populi Suprema Lex. Royal Address of Cadwallader Ap-Tudor Ap-Edwards Ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark
George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878)
Doctor Sangrado Relieving John Bull of the Yellow Fever
Isaac Cruikshank (1756 - 1811)
Hands beneath the Sea
Edward Linley Sambourne (1845 - 1910)
Botheration
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
S Athen
A Visitor to John Bull for the Year 1799, or the Assess’d Taxes taking their Leave
British 18th century unknown
“Two Pair of Portraits;” – presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, by John Horne Tooke.
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
C Starck
Convictions in the Kitchen
Chris Orr (1943 - )
The Opening of Historical Buildings
Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908 - 1986)
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849-1917): “He has decided where Churches disagreed”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Death Extraordinary
William, ("Paul Pry") Heath (1795 - 1840)
The Weighing Machine
Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979)
An Election Ball
William, ("Paul Pry") Heath (1795 - 1840)
The Free-Born Briton or a Perspective of Taxation
William Dent
The British Lion
British 18th century unknown
Albion
Chris Orr (1943 - )
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)
Five Orders of Perriwigs
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
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)
The Mystery of British Culture
Adam Dant (1967 - )
Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick (b.1942) 13/11/1992 – “Public Sector Deficit”
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
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The Art You Own (frame 5)
David Ziggy Greene
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