Past and Present

Print, Past and Present through Victorian eyes. The Leighton Brothers depict the end of an era, about 1950. Depicts William Chaplin's London to Manchester stagecoach Defiance, derelict in a farmyard and surrounded by farm animals. The carriage is covered in hay, and a chicken sits in the empty windowframe. In the background two passenger trains pass in opposite directions next to a station. Text below. Twentieth century reproduction of a lithograph published in 1859, based on a painting by Henry Alken. Pasted on card.