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The mob destroying & setting fire to the Kings Bench Prison & House of Correction in St. Georges Fields
etching and engraving
image: 180 x 315 mm; plate mark: 211 x 329 mm; sheet: 217 x 331 mm
Peel 2624
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title etched below image.
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.
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