Frogs chusing a king [graphic].

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Title: Frogs chusing a king [graphic].
Alternative Title: Frogs choosing a king
Contributor: Aitken, James, active 1788-1802, publisher.
Published / Created: Jan. 14, 1789.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by J. Aiken, the corner Bare Street, Leicester Square
Description: Title etched below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the Library of Congress.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Regency crisis -- George III's prerogative, protected by British Lion -- Emblems: crown and scepter, prerogative -- British Lion: vigilant of prerogative -- Implements of execution -- Figure of Justice -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Whig frogs -- Double entendres -- Puns: "Son" -- Literature: Aesop fables -- Allusion to George III -- Dormant George IV.
Watermark: S. Lay.
Mounted to 35 x 42 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
Subject (Topic): Regency
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Justice
Frogs
Subjects: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Regency > England
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Justice
Frogs
England > 1789
England > London > 1789

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