Pity The Poor Prisoners? mace bearer - Who would have thought

- Who would have thought it

View of the Parish Church of West Hackney

View of an army camp in Hyde Park which was set up as a response to the Gordon Riots in 1780

Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret

In one hand he holds a quill pen

Pity The Poor Prisoners? mace bearer - Who would have thought'Pity The Poor Prisoners?', 1868. A satirical look at the state of the nation's prisons in the mid Victorian period. Here, a group of lower class prisoners, probably enjoying, (in the view of Mr Punch), rather better living conditions than they might outside prison, complain about the standard of the shaving facilities provided and the possibility of skin diseases. Mr Punch would have little sympathy for such complaints. From Punch, or the London