Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

[John Leech]

Subjects:

Pollution, Public Health, Disease

    Subtitled '(A Design for a Fresco in the New House of Parliament)', shows a bank of the Thames with factories in the background. On the left, the allegorical figure of London looks on with some consternation as four figures emerge from the river: a disgusting-looking 'Father Thames', and gruesome figures representing 'Diphtheria', 'Scrofula', and 'Cholera'.