Wisdom and Wind-Bag Size:Standard: 6 x 4in a complex arrangement of railway

a complex arrangement of railway lines

A ragged urchin with torch in right hand and a hat in left hand advances towards them from an awaiting coach

Cumberland'

Iggy Pop with The Stooges at Hammersmith Appollo 2010

October 1971

Wisdom and Wind-Bag Size:Standard: 6 x 4in a complex arrangement of railway'Wisdom and Wind Bag', 1866. The master of rhetoric, Thomas Carlyle, is shown commenting on a speech being given to the masses by John Bright. Bright is seen to be rousing his audience by anger by telling them how the House of Commons hates any of the measures it is forced to discuss that might actually improve the lives of the ordinary working class man. The implication is that he is telling his audience lies. From Punch, or the London Charivari,