Bow-Wow!! Finish:Stretched In the Commons

In the Commons

Found in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst

looking north across Guildhall Yard

26 October 1965

It will soon be 'Mate'

Bow-Wow!! Finish:Stretched In the Commons'Bow Wow!!', 1859. Rumours of the invasion of Britain by France abounded. The French press reported extensively that Britain was in fact preparing to take the offensive and that 'In that country which holds war in so much abhorrence, they are now making a hundred thousand rifles, and everybody is learning to use them'. Mr Punch considered such reports to be so much 'Bow wow'. Here, the British lion sits majestically on British soil. There is a