Title from the British Museum online catalogue.
A satire on the Regency Crisis of 1789 issued as a frontispiece to The rising sun, vol. I, by "Cervantes Hogg" (E. S. Barrett), published in London by Appleyard, 1807, in 2 volumes. A satire on the Prince of Wales, the work takes the form of a mock history of the reign of George III, or "Farmer George Gildrig, the Lord of the Manor".
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Print shows the Prince of Wales is depicted outside the east end of Carlton House as the "Rising Sun", with his friends kneeling before him in adoration. Fox is shown at the front of the group, between Erskine and Sheridan (the former wearing the Chancellor's wig and gown, with mace), whilst behind them are Lord Derby and the Duke of Norfolk. Earl Grey and Burke are pictured at the rear (the latter wearing spectacles, rosary and high biretta), turning to look back at George Hanger, seated on a sack of coals with a bludgeon. From an upper storey window, the Prince's mistress (and secret wife) Mrs. Fitzherbert smiles down at her lover, who gazes back up at her in admiration; whilst his friends worship him, the "Rising Sun" in turn worships Mrs. Fitzherbert.