How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed Product:Postcard View of the Stocks Market

View of the Stocks Market in Poutry

The hospital was designed by Christopher Wren and was built between 1682 and 1692 to house war veterans

Costume design for the ballet The Magic Toy Shop by G

Found in the collection of the Biblioteca Nacional

How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed Product:Postcard View of the Stocks Market'How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed', 1858. A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand, and a handkerchief to his nose with the other. He has a bucket of lime at his feet which he is using to clean Father Thames who, with an old, weedy, kettle impaled on his staff, rests on an outlet pipe which gushes its untreated sewage into the river. This cartoon relates to Disraeli's Bill to purify the Thames, in which he