USS 'Alabama', American battleship embroideress 22nd November 1973

22nd November 1973

Men on a shoot with a 1939 Bedford HC 5/6cwt

A satire linking the cult of Vitruvius (which deduces laws of composition and canons of beauty from the measurements of ancient columns and statues) with the preposterous hairdos of the beau monde

with a horse-drawn carriage

Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer

USS 'Alabama', American battleship embroideress 22nd November 1973USS 'Alabama', American battleship, 1898. An 'Illinois' class pre dreadnought battleship, 'Alabama' was launched in 1898. She served with the US North Atlantic Fleet and in 1907 sailed with the 'Great White Fleet' of battleships sent on a circumnavigation of the world by President Theodore Roosevelt to show off America's growing sea power. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book