Framed Chromolithograph showing Gladstone's 1883 Liberal Cabinet.

The second Gladstone administration was responsible for, among other things, the introduction of compulsory elementary education up to the age of 14 and the Married Woman's Property Act which returned to women the legal ability to own property in their own right.

Depicted alongside the Prime Minister are his 13 cabinet colleagues including the MP for Birmingham Joseph Chamberlain, The 8th Duke of Devonshire, the 15th Earl of Derby and Sir William Vernon Harcourt.