Mother Wood, the popular procuress! Size:Large: 7 x 5in Covent Garden Theatre is burning

Covent Garden Theatre is burning in the background

with his supporters behind holding placards advocating political ideals including universal suffrage

True to his nature Tom Rakewell has run through a vast fortune through indulgence in all the luxuries of modern living

View of the statue in the square of the St Peter's Hospital

Mother Wood, the popular procuress! Size:Large: 7 x 5in Covent Garden Theatre is burning'Mother Wood, the popular procuress!', 1820. Alderman Wood, dressed as an elderly woman, stands in the porch of his house in South Audley Street holding a bottle inscribed Popularity; the allusion is to his championing of Queen Caroline and he is compared to a notorious brothel keeper of the same name.