Spy's Taken at Greenwich mb-code 1620223 Interior view of the library

Interior view of the library

In the lower margin is a key

c1868-1918

A crowd with a foppish couple in the front can be seen issuing from a chapel on the right and a house with a sign of 'The Good Woman' is on the left

Spy's Taken at Greenwich mb-code 1620223 Interior view of the library'Spy's Taken at Greenwich', 1798. Mother Windsor with four of her courtesans orders her girls to arrest Shute Barrington, the Bishop of Durham and the Duke of Queensberry, for spying on young women rolling down Greenwich Hill, a holiday custom. Barrington stands in back view holding his glass. This was an attack on Barrington for his protest against opera dancers.