Scene in st giles's-in-the-fields with an elegant crowd leaving the french huguenot church contrasted with rowdy londoners outside a tavern with the sign of the good woman (one without a head); in the foreground, left, a black man embraces a servant girl and a small boy (evidently intended by his curly red hair to be identified as one of the irish inhabitants of the area) cries because he has broken a pie-dish. 1738
etching and engraving. Date: 1738. Dimensions: Height: 477 mm; Width: 384 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Noon (BM Cc,2.127)
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