An Unexpected Cut mb-code 1645549 An open space with booths

An open space with booths and various allusions to notabilities of the time who appear in masquerade

sheep and cattle in the foreground

Including a description below

Two elevations of the centre of the Great Arch

Sammy McMillan

An Unexpected Cut mb-code 1645549 An open space with booths'An Unexpected Cut', 1874. With a felled tree entitled Irish Established Church behind him, Mr Gladstone, the Liberal Leader of the Opposition, prepares to take his 'Pamphlet' axe to the tree carved with Papal Infallibility. Mr Punch watches. This relates to the anti Papal leaflet on Vatican Decrees recently published. Only the previous month, he had written an article on Ritualism and his opposition to it. This came as a surprise, as many had