Peace Finish:Single vide the Strand

vide the Strand

Queen Elizabeth I travelling by coach to St Paul's Cathedral after the defeat of the Spanish Armada

View of new London Bridge on left and old London Bridge on right

Interior view of the French Protestant Church

The woman has the child wrapped in a sling across her chest

Peace Finish:Single vide the Strand'Peace', 1862. At the beginning of May 1862, the Duke of Cambridge, representing the recently widowed Queen Victoria, opened the second International Exhibition at Brompton. It was visited by more than six million people before it closed at the end of October 1862. This cartoon shows Mr Punch's design for a statue of Peace that ought to have been the principal exhibit. Holding the symbol of peace, the olive branch, Peace sits on the symbol of modern