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Paul (1839-1906)

A scene in the committee room at Almack's Assembly Rooms

'English Assassin Painted by France'

before him on the ground a cloud Reminiscences

A Voice from the Spirit-Woolsack Size:L: 100 x 80cm Paul (1839-1906)'A Voice from the Spirit Woolsack', 1865. Two men riding on a flying banjo. Flying with them is a violin, a tambourine, accordion, a bell, and trumpet. A hand appears holding the letter A. This cartoon illustrates the views of the disgruntled and departed occupants of the Woolsack at a measure that was seen to lower Equity 'to a vulgar level'. Spiritualism was an increasingly popular pastime in the mid Victorian period, and here Punch manages to

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