The Ugly Duckling Size:L: 75 x 60cm The cross was on the

The cross was on the site of one of the Eleanor Crosses originally erected in the late 13th century

'View of a Skittle Ground at Hampstead'

'Mother Cole'

Horse Guards Parade from St James's Park

The Ugly Duckling Size:L: 75 x 60cm The cross was on theThe 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