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Description: | This print is Richard Hamilton's comment on one of the most famous incidents of 'Swinging London' in the 1960s.
It is based on a press photograph of the London art dealer Robert Fraser and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, handcuffed together inside a police van.
The two had been arrested by the London Drugs Squad, following a raid on Keith Richards' country house. The incident made front-page news, as did the harsh sentences all three received. Jagger and Richards successfully appealed their convictions, but Fraser served six months of his sentence.
Fraser had represented Hamilton in the mid-1960s and Hamilton created this print to express his anger at an event that 'destroyed' his friend. The title is a pun on 'swinging London' and the judge's call for a 'swingeing' (harsh) sentence. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | DACS Design and Artists Copyright Society | Subjects: | Leisure Youth Culture and Fashion Art and Design | Temporal: | 1968 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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