John Arthur Roebuck, MP Size:XL: 100 x 80cm In the middle distance is

In the middle distance is a group of men observing the work

A strawberry seller in Covent Garden balancing a basket of strawberries on her head

Mr Punch asks whether Napoleon had any real choice between the best man to lead Rome

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John Arthur Roebuck, MP Size:XL: 100 x 80cm In the middle distance isJohn Arthur John Arthur Roebuck, MP, 1881. John Arthur Roebuck (1801 1879) served as an MP for Bath and Sheffield. In 1855 he presided over a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the mismanagement of the Crimean War. Roebuck had a reputation in the House of Commons for asking hostile questions of governments of all parties. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature