Collection object
2004.0056
H. 26.7 W. 28.5
Print, cartoon, colour. Call again, from United Ireland July 26th 1884. Image shows a bearded man in police uniform with book under arm labelled, Police Tax, entering a room. Inside the room the Mayor of Limerick, seated in his mayoral chair holds a copy of the Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay in one hand while holding up the other in a stop gesture to the policeman. Three robed councillors sit around a table opposite the Mayor. Caption under reads, Call Again/ Tax collector Trevelyan- I have come round again for that little bill of £2300 you know. This is positively the last request now do be reasonable./ The Mayor of Limerick- We've just been studying that book of yours and think it admirable. What if we adopt that peculiarly English method of yours and/ tell you "Call Again?" Chorus-Call Again.