The Bayswater Omnibus 1895 IN9140 editor of the West Indian

editor of the West Indian Gazette

Measures 100mm in height

From Belgravia's corgi to Walthamstow’s greyhound

Royal Amphitheatre at Dane Street

The Lord and Lady of May can be seen on the left hand side (the 'Lady' may in fact be a man) and also a rough hurdy-gurdy player and other disreputable characters in the throng

The Bayswater Omnibus 1895 IN9140 editor of the West IndianThe Bayswater Omnibus. This oil painting by GW Joy was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895 and at the Paris Salon in 1896. It shows group of passengers (mother with baby and small child, fashionable young woman, a City man, milliner and a nurse) in an omnibus evidently passing Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens. It features a Pear's Soap advertisement and a Hansom cab in is visible in the background.