Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London Southwark bridge Road 'Delicious Dreams

'Delicious Dreams

c1800-c1850

An inn and the street outside

Panoramic view of Westminster and the City of London looking across the River Thames from Southwark

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London Southwark bridge Road 'Delicious DreamsElection fair, Copenhagen Fields, London, 1795. 'I tell you, citizens, we mean to new dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap on it' Shakespeare'. On a platform to the right is a gesticulating figure, over whose head another, grinning, is holding a green umbrella. Another man is holding a sheet inscribed Resolution of the London Correspond Society. The two men standing up in the crowd are Citizen Richard Lee (on the left), holding one of