Blondin Outdone Product:Framed picture a huge cannon

a huge cannon

photographed with his assistant Nicola Bryant who plays Perpugilliam 'Peri' Brown outside BBC's Broadcasting House

Original is oil on panel 13

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Blondin Outdone Product:Framed picture a huge cannon'Blondin Outdone', 1859. Palmerston, dressed in contemporary circus costume, wheeling a nervous looking Lord John Russell across a tightrope with Niagara Falls in the background. The waters depict India, China, Italy, America and Reform, all of which were knotty problems facing the Government. In contrast to Russell, who is clinging on for dear life, Palmerston displays nothing but a calm confidence in the task. On 17th August 1859, the French