Renewing The Lease Size:M: 50 x 40cm 'Band Boxes'

'Band Boxes'

Queen Consort of George IV travelling in state to St Paul's Cathedral to give thanks for her acquittal

This relates to the war that France declared on Prussia in July 1870

a woman in exaggerated costume walks arm in arm with a man in Turkish pantaloons

Renewing The Lease Size:M: 50 x 40cm 'Band Boxes''Renewing The Lease', 1870. Madame La France, in the costume of the upper class matron, reads over some papers presented to her by Emperor Napoleon, here shown in the clogs and uniform of the working man. He is holding the hand of his young son. A recent plebiscitum had been issued by the Emperor. A plebiscitum would allow direct voting by the people to decide France's future. As his health failed, Napoleon's main aim was to secure his office for his