Ahithophel in the dumps news View showing the pumping engine

View showing the pumping engine and reservoir of Chelsea Waterworks

Wood Street

The memorial was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott

including men carrying advertising placards and a man with a plantstall

Ahithophel in the dumps news View showing the pumping engine'Ahithophel in the dumps', 1830. The Duke of Wellington on a donkey with a saddle resembling a mayoral gown approaching a gallows. The donkey and gown relate to Sir John Key, Lord Mayor od London, who cancelled the Lord Mayor's Show in 1830, fearing riots against Wellington's unpopular government, which fell when Wellington lost a vote of no confidence in Parliament on 15th November.