Sujet

'No Popery or Newgate Reformer ...', 1780. Artist: Anon

Légende

'No Popery or Newgate Reformer ...', 1780. A villainous looking man, believed to be Ned Dennis, wearing a No Popery favour in his hat, holds a cudgel raised to his left. Behind his right shoulder appears Newgate Prison in flames. A satire on the Gordon Riots of 1780.

Date

1780

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B00_242

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

18,8Mo (942,5Ko) / 18,7cm x 25,2cm / 2212 x 2976 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England people male man men hat destruction religious country religion law guy costume crime burning fire flame flames clothes British weapon weapons English Christianity dress war prison location century Britain concept georgian B&W riot cartoon MONOCHROME warfare prejudice Protestant Protestantism penitentiary black & white black and white B W weaponry 18th century Eighteenth Century rioting Guildhall Library & Art Gallery ablaze cudgel Gordon Riots 1780 Newgate Gaol Newgate Prison religious prejudice caricature satire anti-Catholic Anon Anonymous James James Gillray;Gillray