The Picadilly nuisance, London London bridge railway Terminus Hotel with Waterloo Bridge'

with Waterloo Bridge'

and took refuge in the Athelney marshes in Somerset

The image is a satire on the lavishness of civic hospitality

supported on a box

showing a crowd of visitors of both sexes and all ages engaged in gossip

The Picadilly nuisance, London London bridge railway Terminus Hotel with Waterloo Bridge''The Picadilly nuisance', London, 1818; a disorderly mass of pedestrians, including a fruit seller in the foreground, fills the pavement outside the White Horse coaching terminus and Hatchett's coffee house in Piccadilly. A coach and pair, driven recklessly, runs down two men and nearly overturns a cart to its right.