The Pig and The Peasant Size:M: 60 x 45cm the City and Southwark

the City and Southwark

Church of St Margaret Pattens

'An Unselfish Man'

A satire on the bewilderment of a countryman in London

The consequence of going before the wind'

The Pig and The Peasant Size:M: 60 x 45cm the City and Southwark'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