"View looking across the prison yard, in St George's Fields; men and women sitting and strolling across right side of yard, the left side only partly in view showing men playing with rackets; wells surrounded by iron railings in centre of yard separating two sides, a long table in left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 46., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 161.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View looking across the prison yard, in St George's Fields; men and women sitting and strolling across right side of yard, the left side only partly in view showing men playing with rackets; wells surrounded by iron railings in centre of yard separating two sides, a long table in left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 46., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 161., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 34.1 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"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
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 54 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Prisons, Fires, Vandalism, Riots, Arson, Crowds, and Flags
"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
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.8 x 37.3 cm., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Prisons, Fires, Vandalism, Riots, Arson, Crowds, and Flags
