Mending the Lesson Product:Fine art poster View of the Chinese Pavilions

View of the Chinese Pavilions and boxes in Vauxhall Gardens

Crystal Palace was the building for the Great Exhibition of 1851

The Reform Bill had been left on the back-burner along with other proposed bills

Policeman Palmerston tells Sir Robert Peel not to worry

Mending the Lesson Product:Fine art poster View of the Chinese PavilionsMending the Lesson, 1873. A skinny Britannia tells John Bull to beware of handing out too much charity to the needy. This relates to the serious famine blighting the lives of the inhabitants of Bengal and Behar. Bull is shown presenting the basket of food to a starving woman. Another figure is shown slumped on the ground behind her. This was paid for from the funds raised by a well supported Relief Appeal launched in England. On this occasion,