A Social Sketch, or Everything in Common 1850. Satirical print of social unrest after a revolution. A black banjo player attacked by the men of the house for talking to a lady. Ladies forced to wash clothes and peel potatoes, coarse peasants in the drawing room, etc. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punch’s Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864.

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