Collection object
2004.0071
H. 27.2 W. 39.2
Print, cartoon, coloured. A Challenge to the Array, from United Ireland June 2nd 1888. At right a female Erin figure, wolfhound at feet, points an accusing finger at a bishop seated at a table strewn with papers with Lies and ILPU as headings. At left a bearded figure wearing a sash inscribed, To Hell with the Pope, pats the bishop on the shoulder; a figure bearing an axe inscribed, Coercion, and a policeman look on from behind. At centre behind the table a bearded figure dressed as Henry VIII and wearing a medallion inscribed O F. Cartoon by J.D. Reigh. Below centre is the title, A Challenge to the Array, with quote from Shakespeare's Henry VIII Act 2 Scene 4. Cast below Erin Queen Katherine, the Most Rev E T O'Dwyer Bishop of Limerick, last appearance as Cardinal Wolsey, Salisbury Henry VIII Courtiers, Cawtholics Coercionists etc etc.
J D Reigh (cartoonist)