Representation of the Election of Members of Parliament for Westminster 1818 Size:large Moonlight view of Trafalgar Square

Moonlight view of Trafalgar Square from the balustrade on north side and looking south-east down Whitehall

guidance on security and insurance

The painting was acquired by the London Museum as a work by Charles Hunt and is signed and dated accordingly at bottom left

popular residents during the 1950s

it shows the poor and overcrowed conditions in which the poor lived in Victorian times

Representation of the Election of Members of Parliament for Westminster 1818 Size:large Moonlight view of Trafalgar SquareRepresentation of the Election of Members of Parliament for Westminster, detail. Hand coloured etching with aquatint. The polling for the two Westminster MPs took place at Covent Garden. Candidates addressed the boisterous crowds from a stand or 'hustings' erected in front of St Paul's Church. A placard in the left foreground shows the current state of the poll. Hunt, trailing a poor fourth, was the radical Henry 'Orator' Hunt, who proposed annual