# The Gordon Riots

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{{Short description|Painting by John Seymour Lucas}}
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| image_file=File:The Gordon Riots by John Seymour Lucas.jpg
| image_size=340px
| title=The Gordon Riots
| artist=[John Seymour Lucas](/source/John_Seymour_Lucas)
| year=1879
| type=[Oil on canvas](/source/Oil_painting), [history painting](/source/history_painting)
| height_metric=126.8
| width_metric=184.0  
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| museum=[Art Gallery of New South Wales](/source/Art_Gallery_of_New_South_Wales)
| city=[Sydney](/source/Sydney)
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'''''The Gordon Riots''''' is an 1879 [history painting](/source/history_painting) by the British [artist](/source/artist) [John Seymour Lucas](/source/John_Seymour_Lucas).<ref>Tyson p.118</ref><ref>Fea p.9</ref> It depicts the [Gordon Riots](/source/Gordon_Riots) that took place in [London](/source/London) in June 1780. Inflamed by [Lord George Gordon](/source/Lord_George_Gordon), crowds protests against the government of [Lord North](/source/Lord_North)'s [measures reducing discrimination against Catholics](/source/Papists_Act_1778) rapidly descended into a week of [rioting](/source/rioting). Eventually units of the [British Army](/source/British_Army) were deployed in the capital to restore order.

The painting was exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Arts)'s [Summer Exhibition](/source/Summer_Exhibition) of 1879. Today it is in the collection of the [Art Gallery of New South Wales](/source/Art_Gallery_of_New_South_Wales) in [Sydney](/source/Sydney), having been purchased in 1881.
<ref name="artgallery">{{cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/920/|title=The Gordon riots 1780, 1879 by John Seymour Lucas {{pipe}} Art Gallery of NSW|website=artgallery.nsw.gov.au|access-date=2025-01-31}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Fea, Allan. ''J. Seymour Lucas, Royal Academician''. Virtue & Company, 1908.
* Potter, Matthew C. ''British Art for Australia, 1860–1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries''. Routledge, 2018.
* Tyson, John R. ''Born in Crisis and Shaped by Controversy: The Relevant History of Methodism, Volume 1''. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022.

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