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.