France mb-artistname James Warren Childe with Mansion House in the

with Mansion House in the foreground to the left and St Paul's Cathedral in the middle distance

showing air raid damage

checked by a low stile

View of the Fleet Ditch with bathers

France mb-artistname James Warren Childe with Mansion House in the'France', 1755, showing a scene on the coast of France with troops boarding a ship to invade England. In the foreground a monk tests his axe and supervises a sledge containing various instruments of torture. To the right a group of ragged French soldiers roast frogs on a spit. A sign on a building advertises 'meagre soup' and some of the soldiers are clamouring around a flag which bears the message; Vengeance and the good beer and good beef of England.