<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The ambassadors extraordinry [sic] return on bulls without horns [graphic].</dc:title><dc:creator>Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[16 March 1789]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"The seven men ride (right to left) on asses, a signpost (right) pointing 'To Dublin'; they carry 'Regency cakes' in place of potatoes. On the extreme left three men lean eagerly forward, one shouts: "What news, What News the tidings tell make haste and tell us all, Say why are Thus mounted Is Regent come and all." St. Patrick, whose galloping donkey has a head-dress of the Prince of Wales's feathers, answers, "By Jasus I'll tell you all in no time why you must know the K-----g is better than the Reg------t that is all". Next comes Charlemont, identified by his earl's coronet; his donkey kicks violently ..."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Tentatively attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Companion print to: Irish ambassadors extraordinary!!!</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Irish Commissioners -- Irish Commissioners' address, 1784 -- Clubs: Shillelaghs -- Coronets -- Regency crisis -- Signposts: "To Dublin" -- Emblems: Regency cakes -- Irish asses -- Food: potato cakes -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to George IV -- Allusion to Louis Weltje, 1745-1810 -- Allusion to Francis Willis, 1718-1807 -- James Stuart, fl. 1789 -- Thomas Connolly, ca. 1738-1803 -- William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1744-1806, John O'Neill, 1st Viscount, 1740-1798.</dc:description><dc:description>1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 69 cm, on sheet 23.1 x 70 cm.</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>