The City Race Edwin Landseer a Stock-jobbing cards

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Character of romance in medieval and Renaissance Europe

a view of royal barges on the River Thames with crowds on the bank and St Paul's Cathedral behind

In the right foreground are urchins playing cards and dice

The City Race Edwin Landseer a Stock-jobbing cards'The City Race', 1771. Nash, on crutches inscribed Treasury leads a race to the Mansion House, followed by Sawbridge, Crosby (who has fallen down), Hallifax, Townsend and Bankes. In the background Wilkes, in mayoral robes, holds the cap of liberty aloft on a staff while Bull restrains the crowds, who are being harangued by Horne. It is an allusion to the mayoral election of1771.