File:The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782 LCCN2004673470.tif
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English: Title: The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782
Abstract: Print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is standing William Pitt (the younger), Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and Lord Richmond; they are critical of the debauchery of Sandwich and the others while the temple of Fame, representing the British empire, is being destroyed by France, America, Holland, and Spain, represented by four men who are pulling down the pillars which support it. A distraught Britannia is sitting on her shield in the right foreground. Meanwhile, George III is off hunting for stag, and in the background are several ships, some under sail. Physical description: 1 print : etching and engraving. Notes: Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).; South Briton fecit ; North Briton invt.; Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 809.; Title from item. |
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File change date and time | 20:28, 1 October 1997 |