A Losing Game Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 'The civic chair - or

'The civic chair - or - John Lump's progress in City honors'

runs down two men and nearly overturns a cart to its right

patriotical and political print representing the English Balloon or National Debt in the year 1782

Figures seated at long tables

January 17

A Losing Game Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 'The civic chair - or'A Losing Game', 1858. Louis Napoleon to Palmerston What about my match with Montalembert? Palmerston replies, shaking his head, Very awkward for your British backers. Napoleon leans against the wall, disconsolately holding a billiard cue whilst Palmerston perches on the edge of the billiard table. The story behind the cartoon is the trial of the Comte de Montalembert. The Comte had published a pamphlet in France in which he compared in unflattering