St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game after a fire in August

after a fire in August of that year

and with the other he rubs his moustache in thought

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

The title page from Cries of London

St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game after a fire in August'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.