Heath after Wheatley - Gordon Riots 1780, Francis Wheatley, 1790

A scene in the street, at night; civilians stand by a bonfire on the left, into which furniture from an adjacent house is being thrown, at the centre one soldier attends to a wounded man; on the right, troops with bayonets fill the street, their weapons aimed at the crowd, many figures watching from the windows; unfinished working state. 1790 engraving and etching the original painting, by wheatley, was lost in a fire in his house (dictionary of national biography, p. 434-435). Date: 1790.