1-150-605 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

'A Degenerate Daughter', 1870. The extended family at breakfast. The young mother is concerned only for her family, whilst the Matriarch points to the startled and timid-looking 'defender of the realm'. This cartoon comes at a time when France was suffering very heavy losses at the hands of the Prussian forces in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. From Punch, or the London Charivari, September 10, 1870.