"Our Eastern Policy" — Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Statesmen No. 147

Spy exaggerates Rawlinson's most conspicuous features — the broad, heavy head set on a compact body, white mutton-chop hair swept back from a florid face, and a thick moustache — while dressing him immaculately in white tie, a medal on ribbon, and an order's star, signalling establishment rank. He holds kid gloves in folded hands, hat tucked under one arm: the composed posture of a man accustomed to authority. The caption 'Our Eastern Policy' identifies his public role precisely: Rawlinson was Britain's foremost advocate for a hard line against Russian expansion toward India, having spent decades in Persia and Iraq as soldier, political agent, and cuneiformist. The joke resides in the slight pomposity of his bearing.