Portrait of an Old Man with a Stick Finish:Single The Bishop of London throws

The Bishop of London throws bolts of lightning down on them from the sky

The satire refers to Chatham's failed expedition to the Scheldt designed to assist Austria against Napoleon

The Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady seen from the nearby Peterskirche's Tower

the harlot is now beating hemp in Bridewell Prison

Portrait of an Old Man with a Stick Finish:Single The Bishop of London throws'Portrait of an Old Man with a Stick', 1889 1890 (1939). Found in the collection of the Musee de la Ville de Paris. Plate taken from Gauguin, by John Rewald, published by William Heinemann (London and Toronto, printed in France and Belgium, 1939).