The Riot in Broad Street, on the Seventh of June 1780.

To the Gentlemen of the London Military Foot Association, This Memorial to their Patriotic Conduct, is Inscribed by their obliged servants, John & Josiah Boydell. Painted by Fra.s Wheatley. Engraved by Ja.s Heath.' Engraving published in 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London. The riot in Broad Street was part of the infamous "Gordon Riots" which were a number of Protestant religious uprisings in London, England, in 1780, aimed against the Papists Act 1778. James Heath came from a famous family of engravers. Francis Wheatley (1747 - June 28, 1801) was an English portrait and landscape painter.