A scene in the new farce - as performed at the royalty theatre! / G. Cruikshank invt. & sculp.

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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
A scene in the new farce - as performed at the royalty theatre! / G. Cruikshank invt. & sculp.
[London] : G. Humphrey, 1821
hand colored engraving
8 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches; with border: 9 9/16 x 13 5/8 inches
Peel 2027
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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George IV, dressed as Henry VIII and with cavalry boots decorated with rosettes, sits on the throne (right), shrinking angrily from oxen wearing civic gowns who bow, presenting petitions. All the horns of the oxen are tipped with tiny caps resembling caps of Liberty; a slightly larger pair protects the prongs of a fork held up on the extreme left above the massed heads of the beasts. On this a placard is speared: 'Petitions from every Part of the World--(Hole's and Corner's excepted) to Dismiss the Ministers--signed by upwards of 999,999--Millions of the Brute Creation.'

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