Mending the Lesson Finish:Float frame View showing figures and a

View showing figures and a cart loaded with barrels in the street

FS Bennett imported it

showing the allegorical panel at the base and with an imaginary background incorporating two famous columns

'Gladstone Salve - For Tender Consciences'

Mending the Lesson Finish:Float frame View showing figures and aMending 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,