The free Regency / Hibernicus fecit.

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The free Regency / Hibernicus fecit.
etching and stipple
plate mark: 262 x 361 mm; sheet: 271 x 374 mm
Peel 3368
Published: 
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1789?]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title etched below image.
A reverse copy of BM Satires no. 7487 (London : Thomas Bradshaw, January 1789), executed in etching and stipple rather than etching, rocker, and aquatint.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

The Prince of Wales sits on a throne at left, in profile to the right, extending a graciously admonitory hand towards a Frenchman and a Spaniard who kneel abjectly at his feet. On the extreme left stand Fox and Burke. The head of a third man between them may be intended for Sheridan. On the Prince's left hand stand (?) Portland, Loughborough, and a third person, impossible to identify. On the extreme right three persons hurry from the audience-chamber: Pitt, looking over his shoulder, walks between the Queen and (?) Richmond. In an alcove is a statue of Justice, blindfolded, her scales evenly balanced.

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