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- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 51 Box D215
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- On the left, the Duke of Bedford, in a farmer's smock, unloads deer from a wagon in front of an open gate to a park. One of his deer, with a French cockade outlined behind its ear, faces a royal deer with a crown sketched on its shoulder. The King watches Bedford through a spy-glass from a window of the gatehouse on the right. Alarmed that the new arrivals will ruin his herd, he orders foreign deer out and the gates closed immediately. In the wall below the window is a closed door with a knocker in shape of a face, possibly Pitt's.
- Description:
- Date of execution based on the publication date of the print. and Original drawing for print no. 9521 in The catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- Deer and Carts & wagons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Bedfordshire farmer unloading his presents [art original]