Satire relating to Sir John Barnard Pitman and Ashfield London showing part of Regent

London showing part of Regent Street

View of nos 87-89 Drury Lane

A detail of a bonnet can be seen above her head

one peering into the nearby barrow

passing through a geat circus in which stands the Royal Exchange

Satire relating to Sir John Barnard Pitman and Ashfield London showing part of RegentSatire 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.