Study for ‘Order of the day, political scenes’

Humorous drawing with a caricature of Marshal Saldanha, depicted as ‘Hahnmann 2nd’, (a renowned German homoeopathic doctor) giving a spoonful of ‘arsenic’ syrup to the personified figure of an old, moribund Portugal, identified by the shields on the clothing, and supported by two soldiers.
Assisting Marshal Saldanha, ‘Madam Parentela’ holds out a box from the ‘Homoeopathic Dispensary’ with various medicines. Leaving the scene is a caricature of the Duke of Loulé, leader of the outgoing government, with an enema syringe under his arm. The theme refers to the coup d’etat led by Marshal Saldanha on 19 May 1870.