A General Fast in consequence of the War!! St Michael's Church View of New River Head

View of New River Head

'Old Satten Old Taffety or Velvet'

In the centre foreground a small boy drops some fruit while running to avoid an oncoming coach

'The Hanoverian horse and British lion'

'The Regent's Hack'

A General Fast in consequence of the War!! St Michael's Church View of New River Head'A General Fast in consequence of the War!!', 1794. Two separate views: Lambeth, showing an archbishop and his family gorging at the dinner table; and Spitalfields, showing a weaver and his family in rags and starving. There was great distress among the Spitalfields weavers at the end of the 18th century and the clergy were accused of indifference to their plight.