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Rose (F.W.). England on Guard, A Serio-Comic Map for 1878 Rose (Fred W.). England on Guard, A Serio-Comic Map for 1878, London: G.W. Bacon & Co. lithograph with contemporary colouring, slight staining, dust soiling and creasing, several repaired closed tears, trimmed to the neatline, backed with archival tissue, 590 x 435 mm QTY: (1) NOTE: A rare map, which was published early in 1878, following the resignation of Lords Derby & Carnarvon. They were strongly opposed to Disraeli's bellicose stance against an increasingly aggressive Russia. Gladstone is depicted as 'William the Woodman', taking an axe to the flagstaff labelled 'British Honour' and of being a 'Russophile'. Gladstone was frequently ridiculed for his almost obsessive love of tree-felling. Rose’s solid Conservative sentiments are clear. By 1878, Russia looked likely to defeat Turkey and capture Constantinople. A decision was made to order the British fleet to the Bosphorus and to seek a £6 million Parliamentary grant as a contingency against any future war. Disraeli’s Foreign Secretary and closet Russophile Lord Derby, and the equally pacifist Earl of Carnarvon, resigned. Rose alludes to this in the map: ‘A timid earl, alarmed at the sight of a naked sword, deserts his post and hides his blushing face from the public gaze’. Rose also attacks the 'Brummagen Quakers' seeking 'Peace at any Price'.