A Break, losing the Reins Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Interior of Christ's Hospital School

Interior of Christ's Hospital School

View showing No 30 Leicester Square

View showing men cutting stone in the street

(Indian warriors)

The woman on the left is wearing a fitted coat over the top of her dress

A Break, losing the Reins Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Interior of Christ's Hospital School'A Break, losing the Reins', 1830. Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington and Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel about to fall from a vehicle, hauled by a horse (Alderman Hunter) and an ass (Alderman Key), which has shattered on a rock inscribed 'Public Opinion'. Wellington's government was so unpopular that Hunter and Key (who was Lord Mayor of London at the time) felt compelled to cancel the 1830 Lord Mayor's Show due to fear of rioting.