Wisdom and Wind-Bag Campbell Philanthropic Society Institution Chapel

Philanthropic Society Institution Chapel

View of Aldgate incorporating flat topped towers with chimneys and bas relief figure over central arch

26th October 1978

Toulouse-Lautrec

rum and brandy so is presumably a public house

Wisdom and Wind-Bag Campbell Philanthropic Society Institution Chapel'Wisdom and Wind Bag', 1866. The master of rhetoric, Thomas Carlyle, is shown commenting on a speech being given to the masses by John Bright. Bright is seen to be rousing his audience by anger by telling them how the House of Commons hates any of the measures it is forced to discuss that might actually improve the lives of the ordinary working class man. The implication is that he is telling his audience lies. From Punch, or the London Charivari,