A Break, losing the Reins Size:Standard: 6 x 4in To the right

To the right

View showing the pumping engine and reservoir of Chelsea Waterworks

the Marchioness of Rockingham

View showing No 30 Leicester Square

Interior of Holy Trinity Church

A Break, losing the Reins Size:Standard: 6 x 4in To the right'A Break, losing the Reins', 1830. Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington and Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel about to fall from a vehicle, hauled by a horse (Alderman Hunter) and an ass (Alderman Key), which has shattered on a rock inscribed 'Public Opinion'. Wellington's government was so unpopular that Hunter and Key (who was Lord Mayor of London at the time) felt compelled to cancel the 1830 Lord Mayor's Show due to fear of rioting.