A General Fast in consequence of the War!! St Michael's Church early on a winter morning

early on a winter morning

View of New River Head

View of the summer house in the grounds of a house at Mortlake

In the centre foreground a small boy drops some fruit while running to avoid an oncoming coach

A General Fast in consequence of the War!! St Michael's Church early on a winter morning'A General Fast in consequence of the War!!', 1794. Two separate views: Lambeth, showing an archbishop and his family gorging at the dinner table; and Spitalfields, showing a weaver and his family in rags and starving. There was great distress among the Spitalfields weavers at the end of the 18th century and the clergy were accused of indifference to their plight.