St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as

showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as exhibited in 1784

The title page from Cries of London

View with figures in the street

looking off into the distance

The subject refers to a verbal attack by Lord Brougham and Vaux on the city

St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as'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.