Two Girls of The Period Lampredi 'Battle of The Spurs'

'Battle of The Spurs'

View over water at sunset

View with wharves in the foreground and signs for Bull Wharf

26th April 1956

Two Girls of The Period Lampredi 'Battle of The Spurs''Two Girls of The Period', 1869. This cartoon shows a fashionable protestant convert to Catholicism looking in horror at the Catholic nun. This is a reference to the Mary Saurin case where a nun had taken action against her convent for having forced her to carry out such menial and manual tasks as scrubbing floors. However, the Protestant faith relied much on a relationship with God based on their works yet, in this cartoon, the 'convert' is shown as