Swan upping on the Thames Size:S: 45 x 30cm John Power of Cast

John Power of Cast

Advertising Poster for the insurance company Russia

The entrance to Innholder's Hall

Punch therefore suggested that the punishment that had proved so effective in stopping the recent wave of garroting crimes should now be used to give the wife-beaters a taste of their own painful and disfiguring medicine

Found in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Swan upping on the Thames Size:S: 45 x 30cm John Power of CastSwan upping on the Thames, 20th century. Swan upping is an annual ceremonial census of mute swans on the River Thames that dates from the 12th century. Traditionally the swans were the property of the monarch, for whom they were a source of food, but a Royal Charter issued in the 15th century entitled the Vintners' and Dyers' Companies of the City of London to a share of the ownership. The swans are rounded up, marked and released every year in the