Satire relating to Sir John Barnard Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Seated man making an openwork

Seated man making an openwork basket

Soldier of the second regiment of Loyal London Volunteers

(sellers of medicinal plants)

and looks directly at the viewer

Satire relating to Sir John Barnard Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Seated man making an openworkSatire 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.