Looking into the Accounts solitary an American guitarist

an American guitarist

'The curious & uncommon performances of a monkey as they will be introduc'd every evening at Sadler's Wells'

with four pearl buttons on the cuff

Countess of Lancaster

Looking into the Accounts solitary an American guitarist'Looking into the Accounts', 1861. Mr Bull, the representative of the British people, hangs up his coat and hat, ready for a long stint of checking the nation's finances. Mr Gladstone, perched uncomfortably on a high stool, rather like the descriptions of Dickens's Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, with a quill behind his ear, is caught in the act of closing the ledger marked 'Income Tax'. John Bull is encouraging Gladstone to take a short break so