Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London Size:S: 45 x 30cm Sailing ships at St Katharine's

Sailing ships at St Katharine's Dock

'In the Mall

probably a reference to legal text books or to his own writings on the law

The woman's pose travesties the words of the quotation from Sir Walter Scott

the baker's

Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London Size:S: 45 x 30cm Sailing ships at St Katharine'sScene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London, 1830. 'One of the afflicting occurrences in life in London, Tom, Jerry and Logic arrested in their progress home by the melancholy discovery of Corinthian Kate in the last stage of consumption, disease & inebriety'. Under the piazzas of Covent Garden a woman is lying in the arms of a man while other figures look on.