The Fall of Dagon- or Rare news for Leadenhall Street

The image of Dagon has fallen from an overturned rectangular pedestal (right) whose base is inscribed 'Broad Bottom'. The image is a stout man with a double-faced, Janus-like head, consisting of the faces of North and Fox, decapitated; the hands are severed at the wrists; it lies prone, the face of North to the ground, that of Fox uppermost. In the distance is Tower Hill, with a scaffold surrounded by tiny figures representing a crowd. A figure kneels before a block, the headsman's axe is raised. In the middle distance (left) is the gable end of an inn, its sign that of a headsman's axe. A stout man stands beneath it. It is inscribed 'Tower Hill'. Beneath the title is engraved: 'And behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord & the head of Dagon and both the Palms of his hands were cutt off upon the threshold.' Cf. British Museum online catalog.