Coronation day, Robert Seymour, 1831

Below the title: 'some of the lieges on their return'. Three ladies, wind-swept, bedraggled, mud-spattered to the waist, walk one behind the other (left to right), facing heavy slanting rain. The last, who stoops to adjust her slipper, takes the arm of a man who holds up a ruined umbrella. The other ladies hold up damaged parasols. All register distress, and wear large dilapidated hats; two have long fur boas knotted round the neck which stream in the wind. A dog plods dejectedly towards them. They pass a high stand crowded with spectators and placarded 'long may he rain'. Below it is a dense and stationary crowd holding up umbrellas. See bm satires no. 16777. 20 september 1831 lithograph. Date: 1831. Dimensions: Height: 240 mm (image); Width: 368 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: William IV, King of the United Kingdom. Collection: British Museum. Coronation day (BM 1868,0612.1317)