The States General at Orleans, France Size:XS: 40 x 30cm the great glasshouse built by

the great glasshouse built by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851

including lamplighters

Churchill - rather to the surprise of many - had been given the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Salisbury's administration

Scene in the House of Commons

Botanical study of a specimen of capsicum with upright orange peppers

The States General at Orleans, France Size:XS: 40 x 30cm the great glasshouse built byThe States General at Orleans, France, 1560, (1893). The first meeting of the French legislative assembly for 76 years. From an engraving of 1570 by Jacques Tortorel. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.