Satire relating to Sir John Barnard Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Lords and ladies-in-waiting

Lords and ladies-in-waiting

a row of terraced houses with green shutters

Windmill with a circular wooden balcony and cap which could rotate into the wind

passengers and boatmen in the foreground

Charles Parnell and WH Smith at the chess board

Satire relating to Sir John Barnard Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Lords and ladies-in-waitingSatire relating to Sir John Barnard, 1755.'The living statued patriot, lately so justly celebrated, but now generally censured and exploded', 1755. The statue of Sir John Barnard at the Royal Exchange, with, in the lower margin, humourous verses said to have been posted beneath it. The verses reproach Barnard, who was still living, with his retirement from public life. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1737.