Description

hanging from a lamp-post as a punishment for slandering Bethnal Green

seen here in his Chelsea home with a friend

11th August 1959

With a background scene of forest and mountains

Thomas Hood, British humorist and poet Size:L: 100 x 80cm hanging from a lamp-post asThomas Hood, British humorist and poet, (1912). Portrait of Hood (1799 1855) from Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London, by John Adcock, (J M Dent and Sons, London, New York, 1912).

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