St James's in October... mb-code 42-17306881 just as he had stoked

just as he had stoked the fires of the Civil War with his imposition of a blockade on Southern ports

look in horror at a dead owl

lightly curled

looks out of the picture in a knowing way at the viewer

1958 Bedford CA van delivering the Evening Standard

St James's in October... mb-code 42-17306881 just as he had stoked'St James's in October. The King at Hanover. MDCCL (7 months absent)', 1750. Possibly a satirical criticism of King George II's prolonged absence in his home country. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).