The Waits Size:Standard: 6 x 4in after the Royal Exchange was

after the Royal Exchange was destroyed by fire in 1838

John Stern and Charles George Borosky

View with Somerset House behind and to the left of the tower

Pandean pipes and Tenore (Contra-Basso)

from Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock

The Waits Size:Standard: 6 x 4in after the Royal Exchange was'The Waits', 1885. The shadowy figures drinking a toast are Lord Salisbury (right) and Lord Randolph Churchill. Outside are the Liberal's Joseph Chamberlain, William Forster, Sir William Harcourt and their leader, William Gladstone. The recent General Election had left the Conservatives with a minority government but they had decided to retain office. However, the Liberals are waiting. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 26, 1885.