Turin and Florence

Turin and Florence

Signed “F.W.L.”

Italy to Turin:
“That I have patience let our fate bear witness,
Who has ordained it, that thou and I
This very hour, without one tear, must part.”
      — Venice Preserved

Engraving

Fun (21 January 1865): 185

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

The cartoon uses Thomas Otway’s 1682 tragedy to comment on the situation in Italy.

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