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George Cruikshank
Imputation / [G. Cruikshank].
wood engraving
3 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2074
Published:
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Detached from The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse, with eighteen other cuts (London: William Hone, 1820).
Trimmed, with quotation text and verse still attached.
Summary:
The Prince Regent, as a watchman with lantern and rattle, stands in a watch-house denouncing his wife, who stands behind a rail holding a paper inscribed "Defence" out to King George III, sitting in a hooded chair.
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