The little hawk spooky This cartoon accompanies a poem

This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead

View of the British Museum

Lord Elgin (of the Elgin Marbles fame)

such as Gladstone and Spencer Compton Cavendish

The little hawk spooky This cartoon accompanies a poemBird identified by Catesby as 'Accipiter minor', the little hawk (modern scientific name: Falco sparverius, the American kestrel). Plate 5 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731