St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as

showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as exhibited in 1784

boats and figures in the foreground

View of passengers using Shillibeer's omnibus

built for the Great Exhibition of 1851

The subject refers to a verbal attack by Lord Brougham and Vaux on the city

St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants board game showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as'St James Street in an uproar, or the quack artist and his assailants', 1819. Fashionable carriages stop outside a door in St James's Street marked 'Chalk Drawing', through which a crowd of small figures enters. BR Haydon watches from across the road accompanied by a pupil, while a goose labelled WC hoots at him. W Carey objected to Haydon's advertising methods for his drawing.