BIB_ID
375536
Accession number
MA 755.42
Published
[England] : Pubd. Feby. 1, 1811 by Walker & Knight, 7 Cornhill, 1811.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 245 x 347 mm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters, documents, and engravings related to George IV, Queen Caroline, and Princess Charlotte. See main record for MA 755 for details.
Print probably made by Charles Williams.
Print probably made by Charles Williams.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Summary
Those expecting favors gather round the Prince of Wales to prepare him for the Regency. He stands in back view, his head in profile to the left, surrounded by George Tierney[?]; Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings; George James Cholmondeley[?], 1st Marquess Cholmondeley; Sir John McMahon; Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Samuel Whitbread II; Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; William Adam; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville or Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville; and George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine (cf. Mary Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, IX, 1949).
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