The Flower of the City Sir Henry Edmund Knight Six 'cits' with guns shoot

Six 'cits' with guns shoot wildly at birds

The guests raise their glasses to toast the health of the king and queen

In the forground people can be seen out walking

View of visitors arriving at the east end of the pavilion on Holborn Viaduct

playing his instrument

The Flower of the City Sir Henry Edmund Knight Six 'cits' with guns shoot'The Flower of the City', 1809. The head of Charles Flower, Lord Mayor, is depicted within a wilted sunflower, which has leaves labelled with his character qualities and grows in a barrel of rank butter standing on mouldy and rotten cheese. Flower was unpopular on account of his support for the Duke of York.