A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's

a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's auction of 19 paintings'

This cartoon relates to the rumours in France that Pope Pius IX had threatened to excommunicate Napoleon

' A rabbit seller stands with dead rabbits hanging from a pole resting on his shoulder and holding a dead bird in his hand

Wilson on goal line

A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's'A Novel Fact', 1867. An elderly gentleman considers that any book written by a woman must surely be unsuitable reading matter for his own daughters. Women were, at this time, starting to make their mark in the world of literature. Many people, however, retained their prejudices against such 'blue stockings'. This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth century club of literary women in London. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December