The royal hunt, or, A prospect of the year 1782 [engraving]
1782
P&E L2015F134
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Title
The royal hunt, or, A prospect of the year 1782 [engraving]
Variant Title
Prospect of the year 1782
Published
[London] : Published according to Act of Parliament by R. Owen ..., 1782.
Description
1 print ; image 23 x 33 cm. on sheet 39 x 51 cm.
Call Number
P&E L2015F134
System Control No.
(OCoLC)57458657
Note
Signed: South Briton fecit; North Briton invt.
"Feby. 16th 1782."
Sometime attributed to Viscount Townshend as an aritst.
Satirical print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is standing William Pitt (the younger), Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and Lord Richmond; they are critical of the debauchery of Sandwich and the others while the temple of Fame, representing the British empire, is being destroyed by France, America, Holland, and Spain, represented by four men who are pulling down the pillars which support it. A distraught Britannia is sitting on her shield in the right foreground. Meanwhile, George III is off hunting for stag, and in the background are several ships, some under sail.
British newspaper, "The Morning Herald," called for the withdrawal of satirical prints, especially The Royal Hunt, a "well-timed but most insolent exhibition."
Below is a poem about the event: "The chase to the tune of the dusky night."
"Feby. 16th 1782."
Sometime attributed to Viscount Townshend as an aritst.
Satirical print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is standing William Pitt (the younger), Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and Lord Richmond; they are critical of the debauchery of Sandwich and the others while the temple of Fame, representing the British empire, is being destroyed by France, America, Holland, and Spain, represented by four men who are pulling down the pillars which support it. A distraught Britannia is sitting on her shield in the right foreground. Meanwhile, George III is off hunting for stag, and in the background are several ships, some under sail.
British newspaper, "The Morning Herald," called for the withdrawal of satirical prints, especially The Royal Hunt, a "well-timed but most insolent exhibition."
Below is a poem about the event: "The chase to the tune of the dusky night."
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