Bos Americanus mb-width 3048 On the other

On the other

A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg takes the hand of a soldier

heavily disguised as a rotund lady

of Fernwood

Original is oil on canvas 10x14 (inches)

Bos Americanus mb-width 3048 On the otherBos Americanus; , 1877. An American bull, mapped out with its joints and cuts of meat, is carefully priced as it tosses the British butcher out of the way. The butcher has labels showing the price of beef to be 13 pence a pound, and mutton 1shilling a pound. Imports of American meat were growing rapidly and it was hoped that the increasing competition would force the nation's butchers to reduce their inflated prices. From Punch, or the London