Sweet Things in Christmas Vestments

6 January 1866

Wood-engraving

Punch, p. 20

Courtesy Athenæum Club Library

London

In this cartoon the illustrator draws upon common associations of fashion with triviality and vanity to satirize High Churchman who introduced vestments, candles, and incense from Roman Catholicism into the Anglican service.

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