Microscopic views of a gnat mb-artistname Charles Ginner View of Lady Essex's resedence

View of Lady Essex's resedence in Stepney

President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire

With an allegorical scene below showing a winged figurel crowning Nelson with a laurel wreath and ships at sea

was an object of derision

Crowds of people are in the spectator stands

Microscopic views of a gnat mb-artistname Charles Ginner View of Lady Essex's resedenceIllustration showing a microscopic view of the tufted or brush horned gnat. Schem. XXVIII from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665