All in Good Time

All in Good Time

Mrs. Britannia: — “Now, my dear Italy, be satisfied; you look very pretty as you are, and must be content for a while to do without those luxuries' and you know, my dear, you can’t afford them just yet.”

Engraving

Fun (29 October 1862): 64

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

The “luxuries” shown in the window are Rome and Venice, not yet part of the reunified Italy.

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