Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled Noble Athenian of Shakespeare's 'Timon

Noble Athenian of Shakespeare's 'Timon of Athens'

5th July 1963

c1750 with a street scene and horse drawn vehicles

and London in the distance

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled Noble Athenian of Shakespeare's 'Timon'Patent First Class Costume for the Collision Season', 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon. The two men in this cartoon are well prepared for any eventuality. This was a regular topic in Punch as the journal often highlighted the lack of proper investment in the country's railway network. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 19, 1876.