St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Prospective view of St Bartholomew's

Prospective view of St Bartholomew's Hospital

belonging to Sir Henry Meux

A skeletal figure holds an empty glass

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with a group of figures looking at the exhibits

St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Prospective view of St Bartholomew's'St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants', 1819. Fashionable carriages stop outside a door in St James's Street marked 'Chalk Drawing', through which a crowd of small figures enters. BR Haydon watches from across the road accompanied by a pupil, while a goose labelled WC hoots at him. W Carey objected to Haydon's advertising methods for his drawing.