Effigy of Jeremy Bentham with his embalmed head, University College, London Product:Canvas 'A National Toast'

'A National Toast'

1198 people lost their lives

Satire on the way in which advantage could be taken of the bankruptcy laws or of the periodical acts for the relief of debts

John Ruskin

Found in the Collection of the British Museum

Effigy of Jeremy Bentham with his embalmed head, University College, London Product:Canvas 'A National Toast'Effigy of Jeremy Bentham with his embalmed head, University College, London, 1956. English social reformer and philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748 1832) established the doctrine of Utilitarianism and was a founder of University College. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.