Copper engraving with later hand colouring.Overall size in sand mount : 69.5cms.x 56.8 cms.Image size : 518mm.x 413mm (including title). Queen. GeorgeIII. Pitt. Prince of Wales. Duke of Orleans. Much scandal was raised in the spring of 1786 by the refusal of the King and his Minister to relieve the Prince of Wales by paying off his heavy accumulation of debt. The King and Queen are represented, with their then proverbial avarice, as gathering in for themselves and hoarding up the riches of the treasury, dispensing a share of it only to their German favourites, while the Heir apparent is left in rags and pverty to seek assistance of a foreign prince. The motto on his crest (which is seen on the wall just above him) is 'ich starve', in place of 'ich dien'. The Duke of Orleans, who was proverbial for his riches and who had formed an intimacy with the Prince of Wales, was in England at the time the question alluded to was in agitation, and offered the Prince a loan of a considerable sum to relieve him in his difficulties. Some of the Prince's friends, fearful of the consequences of such a transaction, persuaded him to decline the offer.(from Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray by Thomas Wright and R H Evans 1851)
| Subject | Caricature |
|---|---|
| Map maker | Gillray, James |
| Publisher | Henry G.Bohn. |
| Published at year | 1849circa |
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