The Pig and The Peasant Size:M: 60 x 45cm A satire on the bewilderment

A satire on the bewilderment of a countryman in London

True to his nature Tom Rakewell has run through a vast fortune through indulgence in all the luxuries of modern living

the City and Southwark

Portrait of Mäda Primavesi

actor Tom Baker - the 4th Doctor - pictured with assistant Leela played by actress Louise Jameson

The Pig and The Peasant Size:M: 60 x 45cm A satire on the bewilderment'The Pig and The Peasant', 1863. Peasant says: Ah! I'd Like To Be Cared Vor Half As Well As Thee As Thee Be! Here, Mr Punch highlights the problem by neatly contrasting the fat, healthy pigs and piglets in the clean, hay filled sty. Looking gloomily over the wall is the unkempt, thin, representative of the rural worker, and in the background can be seen the worker's dilapidated, tumbledown cottage. The year's harvest had been good, but little benefit