A Noble Mission

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911), artist

Dalziel, engraver

Fun (8 February 1873): 61

Britannia:— “Well, if I cannot ‘rule the waves,’ at least I can temper the storms of adversity.”

The male figure holds a large bag labelled “Wreck of the Northfleet Fund for Widows and Orphans,” and the bag is ties with a tape labelled with two illegible words and “£200,”

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

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