The Ugly Duckling Size:L: 75 x 60cm View of the Tower of

View of the Tower of London with boats on the River Thames

Staple Inn

plate IV of The Harlot's Progress

View east along Holborn

The Ugly Duckling Size:L: 75 x 60cm View of the Tower ofThe Ugly Duckling, 1873. Britannia and Neptune watch one of the new iron clad ships 'Devastation' leave port. Such ships were armed with giant guns. The First Lord of the Admiralty, George Goschen, had overspent on the 12 ships by some 235,000 over his initial budget of 2 million. Mr Punch was not concerned for, as he said, the ships were so strong that the rest of the world, together, could not produce a force to fight Britain. From Punch, or the