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The Devastations occasioned by the Rioters of London firing the New Goal of Newgate and burning Mr Akerman's Furniture &c June 6. 1780   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: T Thornton

After: William Hamilton (?)
Published by: Alexander Hogg
Title
The Devastations occasioned by the Rioters of London firing the New Goal of Newgate and burning Mr Akerman's Furniture &c June 6. 1780
Description
English: Rioters in front of Newgate, the southern part of its façade in flames. In the foreground is a large bonfire on which a table and other pieces of furniture are being thrust and flung. Men wave hats, bludgeons, hatchets, and pick-axes. A man capers, holding up a stick in one hand, the keys of Newgate in the other. On the right is a flag inscribed 'No-Popery'. Dense clouds of smoke and the flames of the bonfire obscure the southern part of the building, the rest is brilliantly lit. The design is surrounded by a border representing a carved frame, with medallions, garlands, &c. On it is inscribed 'All the Prisoners to the amount of 300 were released this Night'. c. June 1780
Etching with engraving
Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 216 millimetres
Width: 317 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1880,1113.4253
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) For the burning of Newgate see also BMSat 5684, 5844. Reproduced, S. G. Fisher, 'Struggle for American Independence', 1908, ii. 276.

A plate from E. Barnard's 'History of England', published in parts and completed c. 1791.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-4253
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