Detail The Westminster Election 1788 Frame:white Reconstruction drawing of Londinium looking

Reconstruction drawing of Londinium looking east: 'Roman London c

Paul's church and Covent Garden

South Finsbury

The coronation went ahead in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953

No painting of the subject has been traced but is possibly by the Swiss artist Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Detail The Westminster Election 1788 Frame:white Reconstruction drawing of Londinium lookingDetail from The Westminster Election by Robert Dighton. This pen and watercolour drawing is one of several depictions of the Westminster Election by Robert Dighton in the Museum's collection. Here, Dighton presents us with a scene in Covent Garden during the election of 1788, when Lord John Townshend campaigned against Admiral Lord Hood. Recognisable portraits include the politican Charles James Fox, the Duke of Norfolk and John Wilkes, Chamberlain to