Check to King Mob Size:M: 60 x 45cm A view of Saints Bay

A view of Saints Bay on the island of Guernsey

The London Working Men's Association

View of Bow

figures in street and horses

Anna Akhmatova as Acrobat

Check to King Mob Size:M: 60 x 45cm A view of Saints Bay'Check to King Mob', 1867. Britannia meting out justice to King Mob and the message is that a similar fate will befall those who commit such terrible crimes. In an echo of the method of execution, her hand has a tight and compressing grip on the throat of the Fenian outlaw. In mid September 1867, a number of Fenians had cold bloodedly murdered a policeman in Manchester. A number of Fenian activists had been arrested and committed for trial and, at the