Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor women and children playing with

women and children playing with cards

These properties were affected by the construction of Holborn Viaduct in the 1860s

with a carriage in the foreground

alongside which lies a sword inscribed Blucher's carving Knife

outside John Lever's bookshop on Broker Row

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor women and children playing with'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.