Gordon Riots, Newgate Prison, London Size:S: 60 x 45cm View of Woodlands House

View of Woodlands House

Entrance to Oxford Street at the Tyburn Turnpike

seen from across the River Thames

Monument to Edmund Crouchback

View of the Tower of London with figures and horse-drawn carriages and wagons on a lawn in the foreground and vessels on the River Thames to the right

Gordon Riots, Newgate Prison, London Size:S: 60 x 45cm View of Woodlands HouseView of rioters setting fire to Newgate Prison, London, 1780 and burning Mr Akerman's furniture. In the crowd on the right a flag is held with the writing 'No Popery' on it. This riot formed part of the Gordon Riots. Lord George Gordon, a retired navy lieutenant, was strongly opposed to proposals for Catholic Emancipation. On 2nd June, 1780, Gordon led a crowd of 50,000 people to the House of Commons to present a petition for the repeal of the 1778