'Stand Back!', John Bull helps little Belgium to bar the German invader, First World War mb-code DEC675-19 All three are wearing dresses

All three are wearing dresses with full hooped shirts and tight fitting bodices

Full length studio portrait of Archibald Billing seated and half-turned to the left as viewed

De Lesseps (1805-1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope

View of the Thames at Richmond

'Stand Back!', John Bull helps little Belgium to bar the German invader, First World War mb-code DEC675-19 All three are wearing dresses'Stand Back!', John Bull helps little Belgium to bar the German invader, First World War, 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II tries to push against Britain in the form of John Bull and Belgium represented by a peasant in clogs. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914).