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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.