Liberal election poster

Liberal election poster

Ignoring vital social reform issues, Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (centre left) and his nephew, A.J. Balfour, who succeeded him in July1902, peer indecisively over the fence. Behind these symbols of aristocratic continuity, the monocled profile of the influential and radical Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, focuses on distant imperial issues.
Catalogue reference: COPY 1/170 f.42 (27 Sept 1900)