A wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Product:Postcard View of Cannon Street and

View of Cannon Street and Budge Row with street scene

'Buy a new Almanack'

also known as 'Bloody McKenzie'

Tower of London under siege during the riots of November 1830

A wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Product:Postcard View of Cannon Street andA wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London, 1816. A woman stands with a rope round her neck, like an animal; Smithfield is a cattle market. A man presumably her husband holds the rope. Another man chucks her under the chin. People have assembled for the spectacle, and dogs and small boys enjoy the excitement. A publican stands outside his tavern in his apron to watch.