The pelicans of St James's Park, London mb-code 00408253 a woman and child feed

a woman and child feed chickens

The figures includ Lumley Skeffington

with the word 'ROMA' just visible

the harlot's handsome young lover has cost her an easy life with her Jewish protector and she is now in a Drury Lane lodging house

The painting is on two joined pieces of paper This painting forms plate 7 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

The pelicans of St James's Park, London mb-code 00408253 a woman and child feedThe pelicans of St James's Park, London, 1926 1927. Illustration from Wonderful London, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, Volume I, published by Amalgamated Press, (London, 1926 1927).