London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 is stabbed with a sword

is stabbed with a sword by Arthur Thistlewood

8 litre unit

designed by Robert Smirke

June 1978 78-3052-005

the building on the right is Hogarth's studio

London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 is stabbed with a sword'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or