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Thomas Rowlandson
The eclipse at an end - and political tilting discovered
[London] : Pub'd for R Blofield, No 2 Craven Court, Craven Street, Strand, as the Act directs, [1789?]
Peel 1612
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[London] : Pub'd. for R. Blofield, No. 2 Craven Court, Craven Street, Strand, as the Act directs, [1789?]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Attributed in some sources to Thomas Rowlandson.
Summary:
Print shows Edward Thurlow and a woman, possibly Queen Charlotte, on a donkey labeled "WP" (William Pitt?) wearing a lion skin, a partially eclipsed sun (George III) above them; on the right two men are seated on a horse wearing the feathers of the Prince of Wales, it has begun to rear, but has a weight attached to its front left leg.
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