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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: William Holland
Title
Britannia's support or the conspirators defeated
Description
English: [BMSat 7503]


The Prince of Wales (left), sword in hand, gallantly protects Britannia against the attack of three conspirators: Pitt raises a headsman's axe in both hands; Grafton, holding a conspirator's lantern, is about to strike her with a dagger; Richmond, on the extreme right, fires a musket, resting one knee on a cannon. The Prince wears a coronet with three ostrich feathers, he holds out his shield behind Britannia, who cowers towards him in terror.

[BMSat 7504]
Three patients chained by the neck are seated in three adjoining boxes or cubicles. The doctor enters from the left carrying a bowl and spoon; he says, "I see no signs of Convalescence". He is followed by an attendant who carries across his shoulder a bundle of ropes or nets, saying, "No damme, they must be all in a state of Coercion". The first patient (left) is Pitt, in profile to the left, enthroned on a chamber-pot, holding a sceptre of twigs or straws and wearing a coronet bristling with straws. Over his head is the inscription: 'went mad supposing himself next heir to a Crown' (cf. BMSat 7495). Next him is Richmond dressed in a shirt; supporting his head on his hands, he gazes at five toy cannon arranged in a semicircle at his feet. On his head is a chamber-pot. Behind him is a placard 'Plan of Fortifat ...'. His inscription 'is went mad in the Study of Fortification' (cf. BMSat 6921, &c). The last patient is a stout and not uncomely woman, who scratches her bare breast. Her inscription is 'Driven mad by a Political itching'. She is probably the Duchess of Gordon, cf. BMSat 7490. The patients' boxes are inscribed 'incurables'. 7 February 1789


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 352 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5836
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) One of many satires on the Regency crisis, see BMSat 7377, &c. For Pitt's alleged designs on the Constitution, cf. BMSat 7382, &c.; for Grafton and Richmond, BMSat 7389. Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 247.

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Although the print is clearly lettered "H Holland", the script is identifiable as that of William Holland who published satirical and other prints at 50 Oxford Street from 1786 to 1802.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5836
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