Penury Incurrd By Endless Riot
by Print Collector
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Penury Incurrd By Endless Riot
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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Penury incurr'd by endless riot, vanity, the lust of pleasure and variety! Ministerial grace deals him out money from the public chest', circa 1820. Satirical cartoon: Prime Minister William Pitt advises the dissolute Prince Regent (future King George IV) to marry Caroline of Brunswick. From "The Queen's matrimonial ladder", a political pamphlet with wood engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, published after the opening of the trial of Queen Caroline (1768-1821, also known as Caroline of Brunswick, consort of King George IV), in August 1820. [William Hone, London]. Included in an album containing portraits and satirical caricatures related to the trial. Artist George Cruikshank. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
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