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The English regency.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The English regency.
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English: The Prince of Wales stands, looking down dejectedly, his hands tied behind him by a rope held by Pitt, who is seated in the Coronation Chair (as in BMSat 7386) raised on a dais of three steps. The Prince's coronet and feathers lie on the ground beside him; Pitt wears a crown poised sideways on his head and holds a sceptre; he says "This Crown sits so heavy on me that I fear it will fall and pull my Head down with it." A Spanish don (? Charles IV) and a foppish Frenchman (Louis XVI) kick the Prince. The former (left) says, "You, a Regent, there! take that for your Regency you have nothing but the name". The other, who is much caricatured, wearing a crown and star, takes a pinch of snuff; he says, "By Gar Monsieur Anglois, now is de time to give you von kick of the Bum". Beneath the design is engraved:



'Can free born Britons Tamely Sit,
And see the Brunswick line disgrac'd
As if to govern found unfit,
Or that the Crown had been misplac'd.
Forbear rash Youth in time retire,
Nor further Vengeance dare,
The Scene may Change while you aspire;
And doom you! The Lord knows where.' 29 January 1789


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles IV, King of Spain
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 368 millimetres
Width: 244 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.449
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on the Regency crisis, see BMSat 7377, &c. The resolutions embodying restrictions on the Regent were moved by Pitt on 16 Jan. 'Parl. Hist.' xxvii. 936 ff. See BMSats 7486, 7488, &c. For the (supposed) attitude of foreign princes cf. BMSat 7507, &c. At this time it was known that Pitt was preparing to return to the Bar, while the Opposition were confidently disposing of posts in a new administration, cf. 'Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot', i. 257, 260 ff. By the same artist as BMSat 7392, &c, all accusing Pitt of robbing the Prince of his crown.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-449
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