The Picadilly nuisance, London London bridge railway Terminus Hotel View of a house in

View of a house in Wells Street

showing a crowd of visitors of both sexes and all ages engaged in gossip

The image is a satire on the lavishness of civic hospitality

and took refuge in the Athelney marshes in Somerset

'Queen Elizabeth (I) Received by Sir Thomas Gresham on the Opening of the Royal Exchange

The Picadilly nuisance, London London bridge railway Terminus Hotel View of a house in'The Picadilly nuisance', London, 1818; a disorderly mass of pedestrians, including a fruit seller in the foreground, fills the pavement outside the White Horse coaching terminus and Hatchett's coffee house in Piccadilly. A coach and pair, driven recklessly, runs down two men and nearly overturns a cart to its right.