Picture No | 10472299 |
Date | 1860s |
Description | Origin Species, CH Bennett, Money saver - tortoise |
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'Slow and sure'. Satire on Darwin's 'Origin of Species' showing the evolution of money saver from a tortoise. A stout old gentleman, patient, industrious, conscious of the true value of money. A tortoise further down the evolutionary line, before that, his money-bag period, but money eventually runs away like water through a sieve (evolved from the mans hat)
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Source | Charles H Bennett in The Origin of Species dedicated to Charles Darwin. Character Sketches and Development drawings |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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