Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London Size:XXL: 150 x 75cm with a barge passing through

with a barge passing through a lock

showing men studying the Gazette Extraordinary while others appear to be taking notes from a blackboard

' A milk seller passes a jug of milk to a lady standing in a doorway

inside a box

others wear top hats and shawls

Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London Size:XXL: 150 x 75cm with a barge passing throughBurning the rumps at Temple Bar, London, 1726; the London populace, disgusted with the Rump Parliament which assembled after Oliver Cromwell's death, burnt rumps of beef in the streets with cries of no more rump. This image formed Plate 11 of William Hogarth's illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras.