prints by william dent in the british museum, george iii

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Constitutional Danger, or, a Sure Way to Stop the Progress of Pain (BM 1987,0516.6)

Constitutional Danger, or, a Sure Way to Stop the Progress of Pain (BM...

Satire on the Royal Proclamation of 21 May 'for the preventing of tumultuous meetings and seditious writings': Pitt firing a cannon supported by George III on two wheels, decorated with the busts of James II an... More

Exhibition of the Times, consisting of Emblems & Caricatures, original, political, humourous and satirical ... Plate the Second (BM 1868,0808.5739)

Exhibition of the Times, consisting of Emblems & Caricatures, original...

Title and imprint as BMSat 7328. The arrangement follows that of BMSat 7328, except that there are fourteen instead of thirteen objects or groups. [1] 'THE BULSE'. (See BMSat 6966.) George III (half length) le... More

Illustration by Shade (BM 1868,0808.5735)

Illustration by Shade (BM 1868,0808.5735)

Five persons, in profile to the right, stand in a row arranged left to right and diagonally, the figures diminishing in perspective from the nearest, George III, who is on the extreme left. They cast shadows wh... More

Installation (BM 1868,0808.5727)

Installation (BM 1868,0808.5727)

A satire on the installation of the Knights of the Bath, anticipating the actual installation on 19 May. George III as a stable-boy or groom leads to their stalls asses with human heads wearing the feathered ha... More

Royal Taste (BM 1868,0808.5566 1)

Royal Taste (BM 1868,0808.5566 1)

George III drives a farm-cart left to right and downhill in Windsor Great Park. Queen Charlotte sits beside him and four princesses (one a child) are crowded behind. The two plodding horses are driven tandem, t... More

Royal Taste (BM 1868,0808.5566)

Royal Taste (BM 1868,0808.5566)

George III drives a farm-cart left to right and downhill in Windsor Great Park. Queen Charlotte sits beside him and four princesses (one a child) are crowded behind. The two plodding horses are driven tandem, t... More

The Brentford Race for the Middlesex Septennial Plate (BM 1868,0808.5261 1)

The Brentford Race for the Middlesex Septennial Plate (BM 1868,0808.52...

The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III, cf. BMSat 6568); he holds up the cap of... More

The Brentford Race for the Middlesex Septennial Plate (BM 1868,0808.5261)

The Brentford Race for the Middlesex Septennial Plate (BM 1868,0808.52...

The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III, cf. BMSat 6568); he holds up the cap of... More

The Countryman's Dream of Coalescing Virtue and Vice (BM 1868,0808.5187)

The Countryman's Dream of Coalescing Virtue and Vice (BM 1868,0808.518...

A satire on the scheme of the country gentlemen, meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern, for a 'union' between Pitt and Fox. The scene is outside a public house inscribed 'St Albans' (left); the sign projecting from... More

The East India Hot Air Balloon (BM J,2.122)

The East India Hot Air Balloon (BM J,2.122)

Fox hangs by neck from a rope attached to the 'East India Air Balloon'; a globe on which is depicted the East India House in Leadenhall Street. On the ground beneath are two larger figures, George III (left) an... More

The Fox Hunt (BM 1868,0808.5116)

The Fox Hunt (BM 1868,0808.5116)

Fox, as a fox with a human head, is being chased (left to right) by dogs with human heads, by two huntsmen on foot, and by Lord Temple riding on the king, an ass with the face of George III. Partly visible on t... More

The New Peerage or Fountain of Honor (BM 1868,0808.5665)

The New Peerage or Fountain of Honor (BM 1868,0808.5665)

George III stands on a circular dais of four steps blowing soap-bubbles which are transformed as they fall into coronets; a crowd of greedy supplicants surrounds him. He wears royal robes and holds, in his left... More

The Raree Show executed for the benefit of Mr Somebody at the expence of John Bull (BM 1868,0808.5686)

The Raree Show executed for the benefit of Mr Somebody at the expence ...

The trial of Hastings in Westminster Hall is travestied as a raree show in a booth. On the ground spectators fight for access to the booth; on a gallery above their heads Burke, Sheridan, and Fox as clowns and ... More

The Surprising Stone Eater, with appetite of farmer, he'll feast on the hardest stones brought from the East (BM 1868,0808.5702)

The Surprising Stone Eater, with appetite of farmer, he'll feast on th...

George III (half length), in profile to the left, leans back, a stone in his mouth, looking anxiously at a hand which holds out to him another 'stone'. An open box inscribed 'Bulse' is on the left, as if held b... More

The Wise Man of the East making his offering (BM 1877,1013.896 1)

The Wise Man of the East making his offering (BM 1877,1013.896 1)

Hastings (left), in oriental dress, wearing a jewelled turban, kneels on one knee before George III holding out to him a box of jewels and a receptacle brimming over with guineas. The King, partly concealed by ... More

The Wise Man of the East making his offering (BM 1877,1013.896 2)

The Wise Man of the East making his offering (BM 1877,1013.896 2)

Hastings (left), in oriental dress, wearing a jewelled turban, kneels on one knee before George III holding out to him a box of jewels and a receptacle brimming over with guineas. The King, partly concealed by ... More

The Wise Man of the East making his offering (BM 1877,1013.896)

The Wise Man of the East making his offering (BM 1877,1013.896)

Hastings (left), in oriental dress, wearing a jewelled turban, kneels on one knee before George III holding out to him a box of jewels and a receptacle brimming over with guineas. The King, partly concealed by ... More

Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his Task (BM J,2.105)

Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his Task (BM J,2.105)

Thurlow, seated (left), a birch-rod in his right hand, in the other an open book inscribed 'A new guide to India', looks towards Pitt, who stands before him dressed as a young girl though wearing a bag-wig. Pit... More