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Fielding and Walker
The mob destroying & setting fire to the Kings Bench Prison & House of Correction in St. Georges Fields
Published
[London] : Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row, [1 August 1780]
etching and engraving
image: 180 x 315 mm; plate mark: 211 x 329 mm; sheet: 217 x 331 mm
Peel 2624
Notes
Title etched below image.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
"The mob active in the foreground throwing stones, beating sticks and setting fire to the surrounding buildings of the prison; men run to the left holding a flag with "No Popery"; a woman in ragged clothes in central foreground holding up large rocks, a child at her side."--British Museum online catalogue.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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