The Ugly Duckling Size:L: 75 x 60cm Staple Inn

Staple Inn

Malpha - Robert Cartland - in the forest with some of his other members

from Ironmonger Lane

plate IV of The Harlot's Progress

Interior of the Church of St George

The Ugly Duckling Size:L: 75 x 60cm Staple InnThe Ugly Duckling, 1873. Britannia and Neptune watch one of the new iron clad ships 'Devastation' leave port. Such ships were armed with giant guns. The First Lord of the Admiralty, George Goschen, had overspent on the 12 ships by some 235,000 over his initial budget of 2 million. Mr Punch was not concerned for, as he said, the ships were so strong that the rest of the world, together, could not produce a force to fight Britain. From Punch, or the