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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Hint to Modern Sculptors, as an Ornament to a Future Square
Description
English: The Prince of Wales, on horseback, figures as a life-like equestrian statue (of the future George IV) mounted on a pedestal of three rectangular blocks, diminishing in size. On the middle block: 'PATER URBIUM subscribi Statuis." Juvel'. The Prince, in regimentals, very fat, sits in profile to the left, holding a drawn sabre. He holds the left curb rein, the snaffle lying on the animal's neck. The toe of his spurred boot is in the stirrup. He wears a feathered cocked hat, a star on his breast and on his hat, a broad sash round his ample waist. A large holster hangs from the saddle beneath which is a leopard-skin with a 'GR' and crown on each corner. The horse's near foreleg and off hind leg are raised. Beneath the design:



'"------"I saw him with his Beaver on
"His Cuisses on his Thighs gallantly arm'ed
"Rise from the ground like feather 'd Mercury
"And vaulted with such ease into his seat
"As if an Angel dropt down from the Clouds,
"To turn & wind a fiery Pegasus
"And witch the world with noble Horsemanship - Kg Henry 4th' 3 May 1796


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 357 millimetres
Width: 245 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.797
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Probably inspired by the Prince (cf. Farington, 'Diary', i. 156, 27 July 1796), in 'his new Light Horse uniform, which is very handsome and theatrical' but 'displayed an amount of bulk which probably entertained all beholders' (at the departure of the Duke of York for Holland, 1793). Quoted, Fitzgerald, 'Life of George IV', i. 270. The print is said to have been copied for a French inn signboard as 'the sign of an English light-horseman'. Description, 'G.W.G.', p. 118.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 211 (small copy). Wright and Evans, No. 435. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, 'Angelo's Pic Nic', 1905, p. 23.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-797
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