| Description | Artist's proof engraving depicts the figure of a portly gentleman placing a shutter bearing the notice 'COBDEN CLUB TO LET' across the windows of the Cobden Club watched by the civil servant and statistician Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (1819 -1899) who wears a crown and John Bull. Lying at their feet is a discarded notice that reads 'Free Trade. 'Not an acre of land will go out of cultivation' Richard Cobden'. |