Telescopic Philanthropy Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 'A Rake's Progress'

'A Rake's Progress'

St Benet Paul's Wharf replaced an earlier church destroyed in the Great Fire of London

John Power of Cast

'The Clumsy Groom'

Birthplace of John Howard

Telescopic Philanthropy Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 'A Rake's Progress''Telescopic Philanthropy', 1865. 'Little London Arab. Please 'M, Ain't We Black Enough to be Cared For? (With Mr. Punch's Compliments to Lord Stanley.)' In his novel, Bleak House, Dickens had highlighted and satirised the growing numbers of the middle classes who expended much time, effort and money on raising funds to 'civilise' (particularly black) foreign peoples, rather than concentrating on the problems of the poor at home. This 'telescopic