1-620-728 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London, 1795. 'I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap on it' Shakespeare'. On a platform to the right is a gesticulating figure, over whose head another, grinning, is holding a green umbrella. Another man is holding a sheet inscribed Resolution of the London Correspond Society. The two men standing up in the crowd are Citizen Richard Lee (on the left), holding one of his own tracts and John Thelwall (in butcher's apron), who shakes his fist.