Can't Get Away! Size:L: 75 x 60cm showing a steam engine

showing a steam engine

Crosby and Oliver clashed with Parliament over the publication of parliamentary debates

Members of The Rolling Stones heading for New York

Left to right: Keith Richards

Friday 9th October 1964

Can't Get Away! Size:L: 75 x 60cm showing a steam engineCan't Get Away!, 1884. Mr Punch holds a handkerchief to his nose as Father Thames tells him his worries. Despite sporadic efforts to cleanse the capital's river, it was still in a terrible condition and this is reflected in the appearance of Father Thames, burdened as he is with broken baskets and the occasional old boot. At the back of the cartoon, a sewage pipe allows the contamination to continue.