Great Lion Show Product:Framed picture Herd tries a header

Herd tries a header

in one a figure is pulling in a fishing net

8th March 1976

crossing underneath Macclesfield Bridge in Regent's Park

Joanna Lumley

Great Lion Show Product:Framed picture Herd tries a header'Great Lion Show', 1868. Sir Robert Napier is shown standing on the right of this cartoon. He had recently fought a victorious campaign in Abyssinia against King Theodore which had resulted in the British captives held by the King being freed. The decisive battle had been fought at Magdala and, upon his return home, Sir Robert was created Lord Napier of Magdala and given a pension of two thousand pounds per annum. The one shilling must be a reference