A framed Spanish political poster depicting a moustachoied figure, possibly Fransisco Serrano, 1st Duke of La Torre. He is shown dressed in harlequinade and mounted on a white hare proffering a scroll of reactionary and traditionalist demands while dark smoke, containing 'grand hopes' escapes from a breach in his skull. Cannons ppint out from behind his ears and The Pope is secreted between his eyes.

Printed in Barcelona in the 1880s.

The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Fin de Siglo Spain inaugurated a period of febrile, creative, political and artistic energy.

Politically exiled republicans and radicals contended in the press with Liberal monarchists, ultramontane Catholic absolutists, secretive Carlists and numerous more or less obscure and ephemeral poltical animals.