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[edit]Reading The Times.
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Print made by: John Doyle (HB)
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Reading The Times. |
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English: No. 5. George IV sits in an arm-chair in profile to the right, looking across a round table at Wellington, who faces him on a small upright chair, newspaper in hand. Between them, and in back view, sits Lady Conyngham, on a stool or small ottoman, facing the table. Behind and on the King's left stand Lord Conyngham (portly, and quite unlike the usual caricature), his hand raised in a gesture of astonishment, and Knighton, both more slightly sketched than the others. The King, who wears his fur-collared frogged coat, asks 'Well Arthur. What's the News?' Wellington, adjusting his double eye-glass, reads '"We announce on unquestionable authority that a serious difference has arisen between a great Personage & his Prime Minister".' His feet are drawn back apprehensively under his chair. 1829
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1829 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1857,1222.190 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) For the King's hostility to his Ministers see Wellington's letters of 18 June and 16 July. 'Despatches', N.S. v. 626; vi. 181; for newspaper reports cf. No. 15810. See also No. 15809, &c. Wellington on 15 Sept. showed Mrs. Arbuthnot caricatures of himself, "particularly one in which he is represented reading "The Times" to the King . . . the likeness of the King & himself are perfect & the whole thing excellent, & he enjoyed it as much as any one could". 'Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot', 1950, ii. 305. Cf. Nos. 15787, 15859. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1857-1222-190 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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