Paris Thomas Wolsey Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson

Behind the two politicians are the Indian Tiger and the British Lion

a man who has just been conscripted into the army sits unhappily in a chair next to a soldier with a glass and a pipe in each hand

is shown weeping into a large handkerchief over a caricature of himself as a donkey

Paris Thomas Wolsey Peter Thomson'Paris, 1870'. France, armed and in full armour, mans her country's defences. At France's feet can be seen a number of contemporary newspapers, and a fool's cap. This relates to the Franco Prussian war of 1870. The French had suffered a number of heavy defeats at the hands of the Prussians. However, French newspapers had carried a number of stories applauding French victories and so the news of the Prussian advances was cause for much excitement and