Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London mb-code CMF2010cover 'Early morning in the wilderness

'Early morning in the wilderness of Shur'

behind them another group is engaged in a game of skittles

She was the heroine of the last tale in the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

as a balloon passes overhead

Elevation of west side of Fish Street Hill

Burning the rumps at Temple Bar, London mb-code CMF2010cover 'Early morning in the wildernessBurning the rumps at Temple Bar, London, 1726; the London populace, disgusted with the Rump Parliament which assembled after Oliver Cromwell's death, burnt rumps of beef in the streets with cries of no more rump. This image formed Plate 11 of William Hogarth's illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras.