Bos Americanus mb-width 3048 St Leonard's Church

St Leonard's Church

Original is oil on canvas 10x14 (inches)

They took part in the French Grand Prix of that year

Portrait of the well-known artist and architect

heavily disguised as a rotund lady

Bos Americanus mb-width 3048 St Leonard's ChurchBos Americanus; , 1877. An American bull, mapped out with its joints and cuts of meat, is carefully priced as it tosses the British butcher out of the way. The butcher has labels showing the price of beef to be 13 pence a pound, and mutton 1shilling a pound. Imports of American meat were growing rapidly and it was hoped that the increasing competition would force the nation's butchers to reduce their inflated prices. From Punch, or the London