A mad dog on the run in a London street: citizens attack it as it approaches a woman who has fallen over. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

A broadside headed "Caution ... Hydrophobia" is posted up on a wall to left. On the right is a house with a fanlight over the door and sash-windows. One man shoots at the dog, others approach it with staves and pitchforks, while an elderly man in a wig decoys it with a hat on the end of an umbrella. The woman who has fallen over is an apple-seller; her basketful of apples is spread over the street