My Old Friend Homer Zborowski Poster advertising Castrol motor oil

Poster advertising Castrol motor oil

The child's death has been caused by cold

Showing the arenas for bull and bear baiting

This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead

c1823-1902

My Old Friend Homer Zborowski Poster advertising Castrol motor oilMy Old Friend Homer, 1872. Mr Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister, was known to read Homer regularly, and here, the ghost of the great man has come to ask Gladstone how he could allow his authority to be usurped by the masses. This relates to the outbreak of a number of strikes during the year. These included bakers, carpenters, the Metropolitan Police and London's gas workers. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 14, 1872.