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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
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wood engraving
95 x 85 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2076a
Published:
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed below image: I am wrapp'd in dismal thinking !-- / The King, in All's well that ends well.
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).
Image has been trimmed to remove all text except the Shakespeare quotation.
Summary:
King George IV, with closed eyes, sits huddled on a small throne, while a huge British Lion, with an angry roar, places one paw on a (green) bag, and another on two papers: "Milan Commission" and "Secret Comm[ittee]". Smoke puffs from the punctured bag.
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