Description

holds up an extinguisher made of paper

The fullness of the skirt is also accentuated by the extremely tight bodice of the dress

the scene is Smithfield

The dome of St Paul's Cathedral is visible at right

Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London Size:S: 60 x 45cm holds up an extinguisher madeBurning the rumps at Temple Bar, London, 1726; the London populace, disgusted with the Rump Parliament which assembled after Oliver Cromwell's death, burnt rumps of beef in the streets with cries of no more rump. This image formed Plate 11 of William Hogarth's illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras.

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