File:The Surprising Stone Eater, with appetite of farmer, he'll feast on the hardest stones brought from the East (BM 1868,0808.5702).jpg
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The Surprising Stone Eater, with appetite of farmer, he'll feast on the hardest stones brought from the East ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
The Surprising Stone Eater, with appetite of farmer, he'll feast on the hardest stones brought from the East |
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Description |
English: George III (half length), in profile to the left, leans back, a stone in his mouth, looking anxiously at a hand which holds out to him another 'stone'. An open box inscribed 'Bulse' is on the left, as if held by the person (cut off by the left margin) whose hand proffers the stone, and whose sleeve indicates Hastings. On both stones is the diamond of a pack of cards. The design is enclosed in an irregular diamond within a rectangle, in each corner of which is a quadrilateral diamond. Beneath the title is etched:
Etching with hand-colouring |
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Depicted people | Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1788 date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5702 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For the diamond presented to the King through Hastings see BMSat 6966. The allegations were revived by the trial of Hastings and by the much advertised performances of a stone-eater, one of whose bills is in the Banks Collection, B.M.L. 1890. e. 15, fo. 86. See also 'Gent. Mag.' xxxiv. 300; xli, pp. 448, 495. See BMSats 6978, 7288, 7295, 7359. For the King as a farmer see BMSat 6918, &c. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5702 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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