Damascus, Syria Size:XS: 40 x 30cm President Lincoln's blockade of the

President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire

c1978-c1991

pictured during the band

Hayes (1822-1893) won the controversial 1876 presidential election

This painting forms part of plate 10 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

Damascus, Syria Size:XS: 40 x 30cm President Lincoln's blockade of theDamascus, Syria, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 1: The Birth of Christianity, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).