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The Burning & Plundering of Newgate & Setting the Felons at Liberty by the Mob   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Burning & Plundering of Newgate & Setting the Felons at Liberty by the Mob
Description
English: The mob outside Newgate. Among the most prominent figures are those of a ragged young woman of dissolute appearance, who holds up her plunder, a picture in one hand, a purse in the other; a man waving a scroll inscribed 'No Popery', a young man in irons doing the same. Men in irons, released from the prison, are being welcomed by friends or bystanders. Flames pour from the central windows of the prison and the bonfire of the governor's furniture is seen behind the mob. There are many bludgeons and one 'No Popery' banner. 1 July 1780
Etching with engraving
Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 198 millimetres
Width: 218 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1880,1113.4254
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 (on 6 June) see also BMSat 5686, 5844. See also BMSat 5679, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-4254
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