St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game View with figures in the

View with figures in the street

The subject refers to a verbal attack by Lord Brougham and Vaux on the city

The title page from Cries of London

boats and figures in the foreground

St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game View with figures in the'St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants', 1819. Fashionable carriages stop outside a door in St James's Street marked 'Chalk Drawing', through which a crowd of small figures enters. BR Haydon watches from across the road accompanied by a pupil, while a goose labelled WC hoots at him. W Carey objected to Haydon's advertising methods for his drawing.