The Grand Old Janus Product:Postcard 'The Good Samaritan'

'The Good Samaritan'

'The Luxembourg Gardens

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As foreign travel to exotic locations became increasingly popular

The Grand Old Janus Product:Postcard 'The Good Samaritan''The Grand Old Janus', 1887. Gladstone is the statue of Janus, the Roman god of doorways. Janus is usually depicted with two faces looking in different directions. Janus approves the scene to the left in which a British policeman hands out summary justice to a ruffian. He disapproves of the scene to the right in which an armed officer, dressed in the style of the French police, deals with a similar ruffian. Even as early as the late Victorian period,