3-016-928 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ormoulu clock, presented by the Empress of the French to the bazaar for the benefit of St. Mary's Orphanage, at Lanark, 1864. 'The accompanying Engraving represents the ormoulu clock given by the Empress Eugénie to the Bazaar, held on the 12th April...The group surmounting the clock shows St. Michael in the act of triumphing over the Evil Spirit. It was put up as the second prize in a lottery held for the charitable fund; the first prize being a Roman cameo, set in gold, of Etruscan device. The Sisters of Charity at Lanark [in Scotland] are of the "white-bonneted" order so often met with in the streets of Paris, and sometimes met with also in London. Their works of mercy are carried on in all parts of the world; there being more than 16,000 of these benevolent sisters distributed in little colonies far and wide. The home at Lanark has not been very long established, but the number of orphans already exceeds the accommodation for them; and this bazaar was intended to provide for its necessary enlargement'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.