Looking into the Accounts solitary March 1921

March 1921

an American guitarist

View of the Old General Post Office on St Martin's le Grand

receives the rather more domestic bag of tea

Looking into the Accounts solitary March 1921'Looking into the Accounts', 1861. Mr Bull, the representative of the British people, hangs up his coat and hat, ready for a long stint of checking the nation's finances. Mr Gladstone, perched uncomfortably on a high stool, rather like the descriptions of Dickens's Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, with a quill behind his ear, is caught in the act of closing the ledger marked 'Income Tax'. John Bull is encouraging Gladstone to take a short break so