The Profligate Pastry-Cook's Product:Postcard Steve Coppell

Steve Coppell

View of the Old General Post Office on the east side of St Martin's le Grand

View of West Ham Mills by the River Lea

Boomtown Rats poster

Merchant Taylors' Hall

The Profligate Pastry-Cook's Product:Postcard Steve Coppell'The Profligate Pastry Cook's', 1860. This cartoon depicts a family of elderly mother, daughter and daughter's young children, taking lunch in a restaurant. This represents the typical middle class family. However, Punch is poking fun at the typical middle class family who waste their money on French foods, such as veal and wine. Many things French, particularly literature, were at the time considered to be full of immorality, and, it appears, their