The Popular Poll-Parrot Size:Large: 7 x 5in 'Brick Dust'

'Brick Dust'

4th Duke of Hamilton (1658-1712)

Both of the women are wearing the full hooped shirt dresses that were fashionable at the time

Yorkshire v Gloucestershire

Queen Caroline and Mrs Wood

The Popular Poll-Parrot Size:Large: 7 x 5in 'Brick Dust''The Popular Poll Parrot', 1866. The poll parrot is perched on the bar of universal suffrage, reflecting the continuing agitation of the Reformists for Parliamentary Reform. Naughty Bob Lowe refers to Robert Lowe, the Liberal MP whose opposition to reform had had the effect of finally bringing down his own party's administration. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 20, 1866.