Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London Size:XXL: 150 x 75cm 'Old Cloaks Suits or Coats'

'Old Cloaks Suits or Coats'

showing a fashionably dressed woman shielding herself with a fan from the gaze of three men

'A high wind in St Paul's Churchyard'

shows both men armed with a selection of firearms

showing men studying the Gazette Extraordinary while others appear to be taking notes from a blackboard

Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London Size:XXL: 150 x 75cm 'Old Cloaks Suits or Coats'Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London, 1726; the London populace, disgusted with the Rump Parliament which assembled after Oliver Cromwell's death, burnt rumps of beef in the streets with cries of no more rump. This image formed Plate 11 of William Hogarth's illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras.