Taking physick, or, The news of shooting the King of Sweden
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Print shows the King and Queen, sitting side by side in a latrine, above which is part of the royal arms, the lion looking down apprehensively and excreting. They look in horror towards Pitt, who rushes in, terrified, holding out a paper inscribed 'News from Sweden', and saying, "Another Monarch done over!" The King rises slightly, holding his stomach, and saying, "What ? Shot ? What ? what ? what ? Shot! shot! shot!" He wears a nightcap tied with a ribbon inscribed 'Honi Soit qui M . . . '. The Queen is a shrunken and huddled figure; both have grotesquely agitated expressions.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.