A Sop to Cerberus Product:Fine art poster Jimmy Hill

Jimmy Hill

Boardroom of the Admiralty with a meeting in progress

A mackerel seller holding a fish

Rama abandons his claim to Kosala's throne to serve an exile of fourteen years in the forest

A Sop to Cerberus Product:Fine art poster Jimmy Hill'A Sop to Cerberus', 1872. This cartoon shows Louis Adolphe Thiers, the first president of the Third Republic, and Leon Gambetta, the deputy for Marseilles. Here they are threatened by Cerberus, which, in Greek mythology, was the three headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades. The heads represent Legitimist, Imperial and Orleanist, which groups, with the Red Republicans, were warring continually and causing France's administration great problems.