The notorious Black Billy 'At Home' to a London Street Party

Coloured etching published by Thomas Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row. The scene is at Charing Cross, near the equestrian statue of Charles I. Billy Waters is entertaining the passing crowd including fashionable people, porters, street traders, a pickpocket taking a handkershief and a man with a placard advertising the lottery run by Thomas Bish, later managing proprietor of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Object Details

ID: ZBA2754
Collection: Special collections
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Kelly, Thomas; Sutherland Alken, S.
Date made: March 1823
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements: Image: 111 mm x 185 mm
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