Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A crowd of angry looking people are shouting and wielding sticks as others set fire to the buildings sround them. Etching.
A crowd of angry looking people are shouting and wielding sticks as others set fire to the buildings sround them. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

A crowd of angry looking people are shouting and wielding sticks as others set fire to the buildings sround them. Etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The mob destroying & setting fire to the Kings Bench Prison & House of Correction in St. Georges Fields.

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