St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game looking off into the distance

looking off into the distance

and with the other he rubs his moustache in thought

after a fire in August of that year

The title page from Cries of London

built for the Great Exhibition of 1851

St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game looking off into the distance'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.