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The diamond eaters, horrid monsters!
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image: 193 x 161 mm; sheet: 223 x 161 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1603
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[London] : [publisher not identified], [1788].
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Date of publication from BM Satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows Thurlow, George III, and Queen Charlotte (half length) looking up with open mouths to receive the diamonds which Hastings (left), standing behind Thurlow, pours into their mouths from a bag inscribed "Indian Plunder". Thurlow (left) and the King (right) face each other in profile; Thurlow has the body of a demon and puts his right hand on the breast of the King, his talons tearing off his garment and obscuring his Garter star. The Queen sits between them, full-face. Hastings wears a jewelled turban and oriental dress. Cf. BM Satires.
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