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The sick prince

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S. W. Fores

The sick prince

Published

[London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, 1787 June 16.

etching, hand colored
image: 211 x 250 mm; sheet: 222 x 260 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2564
Notes
Title from item.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows the Prince of Wales on a deathbed with members of the opposition on one side, Thurlow among them with raised dagger, wishing him a speedy death, and supporters on the other side wishing him a speedy recovery. Father Time is poised at center having upset a number of physicians and a dark, naked and emaciated figure with a broken dart who may represent Death. Resting on the clouds is a scroll inscribed: '1800 \ Glory, \ Conquest, \ Submission of \ America - Perfidy of France \ respecting the Treaty'.

Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Bibliography

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 888.

Classification
Department
Century prints