Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor 'Coming out of church'

'Coming out of church'

Devereux Court looking east from Essex Street

outside John Lever's bookshop on Broker Row

'The Merry MilkMaid'

with a carriage in the foreground

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor 'Coming out of church''Patriotic Petitions on the Convention', 1808. Four scenes: top left The Cockney Petition; top right The Westminster Petition; bottom left The Chelmsford Petition; bottom right The Middlesex Petition. A satire on the Convention of Cintra of 1808, which permitted the French to withdraw their surrounded troops from Portugal unmolested and was seen as a national disgrace back in Britain.