"The Prince of Wales ..., 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 ... 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."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print for which this is the original drawing
Description:
Titled by the artist in brown ink below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., Original drawing for a print of the same title published by H. Holland on 7 February 1789. Cf. No. 7503 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 247.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Four pages mounted together with two pages (left and right) of silhouettes in three rows cut from white cardboard and mounted on a single sheet of black. The second sheet from the right includes a silhouette in profileAt the top of the sheet, the Duke of Grafton; in the middle the Duchess of Grafton; at the bottom, Voltaire
Description:
Jean Huber (1721-1786), Swiss silhouette artist., The silhouette of the Duchess of Grafton with a child in a cradle to her left, annotated in Horace Walpole's hand: "Anne Duchess of Grafton cut at Geneva by Monsieur Hubert [sic] 1762"., Possibly the silhouette sent to Walpole 1772 Nov. 15. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, volume 5, pages 439., and Four works matted together: Jean Huber's Découpage with three silhouettes; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage in the manner of Monsieur Huber; Collage of Walpoliana; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage with women, children, and dancers.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804., and Voltaire, 1694-1778
