3-069-174 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

"What Sixpence a Day Will Do"-picture printed on fabric, 19th century. Additional Info: A printed picture of a didactic nature with a story entitled "What Sixpence a Day Will Do." An older man sits in front of an old people's home, and an elegant man stands next to him, writing something in his notebook. Below, there is a text in English about the presented characters. The older man boasted that all his life he spent a sixpence a day for alcohol, but he was never drunk. Meanwhile, the gentleman moved by his story calculated that, if he saved a sixpence a day, not only could he buy a house and a piece of land and live a prosperous life, he could also leave a large sum of money to his children and grandchildren.