Fiat Experimentum-! Size:XL: 100 x 75cm The left image entitled 'Going

The left image entitled 'Going in state to open new London Bridge' shows Gog and Magog rowing a boat containing King William IV and Queen Adelaide

This was the day of Jack the Ripper

Views of the Thames Tunnel: top

he abdicated in 1917 after the Russian Revolution and was murdered by the Bolsheviks the following year

'English barber

Fiat Experimentum-! Size:XL: 100 x 75cm The left image entitled 'GoingFiat Experimentum !, 1877. Britannia shows off a new weapon to the Lord of the Admiralty. This cartoon relates to the reported battle at the end of May 1877, (which is in the background of the cartoon), between a Turkish warship and four small Russian gunboats. It was during this battle that the power of the new torpedo was demonstrated. The Turkish vessel was in little trouble, until the Russians put a launch to the side of her, and sent off a