The American Difficulty Size:S: 40 x 30cm plaintive cries of 'Time

plaintive cries of 'Time

being beheaded at Tower Hill for their part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745

View of Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs

View of the Little Cloister in Westminster Abbey

The American Difficulty Size:S: 40 x 30cm plaintive cries of 'Time'The American Difficulty', 1861. Illustrating the worsening troubles between the North and the South in America. President Abraham Lincoln stokes the fire at the White House, just as he had stoked the fires of the Civil War with his imposition of a blockade on Southern ports. On 19th April 1861 Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports, which meant for the duration of the war the South was limited in its ability to stay well