Execution of a criminal, Lime Street, City of London mb-artist John_Crowther Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge

Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge can be seen in the background

at the corner of Smithfield and Cow Lane

The Lord Mayor's procession by water to Westminster

on the right is the Crown & Anchor tavern and from its two projecting lamp-brackets swing the bodies of Queen Charlotte and William Pitt

Execution of a criminal, Lime Street, City of London mb-artist John_Crowther Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo BridgeExecution of a criminal, Lime Street, City of London, 1664. A crowd gathered round to watch the execution of a parliamentary Colonel James Turner, convicted of having burgled the premises of Francis Tryon, a Lime Street merchant.