Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention Size:XL: 120 x 80cm North side of the German

North side of the German Lutheran Church at Savoy Palace

All three of them are wearing hooped skirts

in a bell-man's caped coat

he pours the oil over a passing citizen

some of which have small birds in their branches

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention Size:XL: 120 x 80cm North side of the German'Patriotic Petitions on the Convention', 1808. Four scenes: top left The Cockney Petition; top right The Westminster Petition; bottom left The Chelmsford Petition; bottom right The Middlesex Petition. A satire on the Convention of Cintra of 1808, which permitted the French to withdraw their surrounded troops from Portugal unmolested and was seen as a national disgrace back in Britain.