Reversing the Proverb bald View of a building in

View of a building in Lombard Street

Old Hummums Hotel

Co-founder with Henry Royce of FH Royce and Company at Cooke Street

'Commerce and Sea Power'

'Select vestry comforts'

Reversing the Proverb bald View of a building in'Reversing the Proverb', 1864. The Oyster where it ought to be, And Shell and Shell the Lawyer's Fee. Here, the plaintiff whose case is settled is walking away with the oyster, and the lawyer and barrister get the shells. Punch makes the point that usually it was the other way round. This cartoon may be satirising the length of the average Chancery case during the mid Victorian period. Some of these cases might last for decades, and people joined in