Looking into the Accounts Finish:Float frame which are decorated with painted

which are decorated with painted garlands

Of the roof only charred beams remain

Robert Benoist with a cigarette

With a description beneath and the title on a ribbon in the sky

Looking into the Accounts Finish:Float frame which are decorated with painted'Looking into the Accounts', 1861. Mr Bull, the representative of the British people, hangs up his coat and hat, ready for a long stint of checking the nation's finances. Mr Gladstone, perched uncomfortably on a high stool, rather like the descriptions of Dickens's Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, with a quill behind his ear, is caught in the act of closing the ledger marked 'Income Tax'. John Bull is encouraging Gladstone to take a short break so