The Parliamentary Python mb-artistname Claude Dubosc Taken from London: A Pilgrimage

Taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré

View of Aldgate High Street

15th July 1986

Beneath the image is a verse by Robert Blair

The Parliamentary Python mb-artistname Claude Dubosc Taken from London: A Pilgrimage'The Parliamentary Python', 1862. The python at the Zoological Gardens in London had at this time laid some 100 eggs. Although she was incubating them, they failed to hatch as they had been left at one point whilst she went off to shed her skin. This incident provided a good opportunity for Punch to have a dig at the current political situation. The eggs in this case are all labelled with contemporary political issues. Lord Russell and the PM,