'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A woman street seller

A woman street seller

This relates to a debate in the House of Commons when the Conservative MP for Buckinghamshire proposed a motion for a Select Committee to sit in judgment on Income Tax and assess if it could not be more equitably levied

the summer of 1879 was particularly wet

the verse 'The Dutch Bubblers'

The building is on the site of the former residence of the Bishops of London

'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A woman street sellerMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Garfish, or Sea needle, (Belone belone). Plate 6 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. VI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772