The 3 kings who pays the reckoning, or, Don Diego in the dumps. [graphic]

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Title: The 3 kings who pays the reckoning, or, Don Diego in the dumps. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Three kings
Contributor: Richardson, William, -1811, publisher.
Published / Created: [26 February 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the Act directs, Feby. 26, 1780 by WRichardson, No. 68 High Holborn
Abstract: The kings of England, France, and Spain stand or sit by a table set with a punch-bowl, wine bottles, and glasses. Behind the table is a four-paneled screen. A waiter with a bill in his hand and a napkin under his arm says to George II: "Who pays the reckoning." George responds: "O! The French King pays for me." The King of France in a coat decorated with fleur-de-lys responds: "The King of Spain pays for all." The King of Spain seated at the table and dressed in a clock and feathered hat says: "D-n the family compact."
Description: Title from caption below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Text below image indicates the country of each corresponding King portrayed in image: England; France; Spain.
Stamped on verso: British Museum 1868 4656; second stamp indicting British Museum duplicate: JRR in ms.
Date added in ms. by unidentified hand in ink in lower right corner: 26 Feb. 1780.
Provenance: Andrew Edmunds; September 2011.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.2 x 18.8 cm, on sheet 21 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Etchings England London 1780
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic): Foreign relations
Subjects: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788 > Caricatures and cartoons
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1760-1789
England > 1780
England > London > 1780

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