Someone Drops a Sixpence Near Somerset House - HM Bateman
H.M. Bateman had a particular loathing for the taxman as exemplified in this cartoon showing the inhabitants of Somerset House (then the home of the Inland Revenue) alerted en masse to the sound of a sixpence dropping on the pavement
Picture No
11673078
Media ID
46717550
Size
5101px x 3453px
(8.9MB)
Credit
©Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by H. M. Bateman (Henry Mayo Bateman) in The Tatler, 15 June 1938
Date
1938
