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- subject matching 'King George IV'
The Prince of Wales's faults provided rich material for Gillray’s prints. Dissolute, as well as being a glutton and a spendthrift, two of these faults are satirised in A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion (D12460) – unpaid bills lie under the overflowing chamber pot resulting from his self-indulgent appetite for food.
'Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 15 June 1782
NPG D12309
'The thunderer' (King George IV; Sir Banastre Tarleton, Bt)
by James Gillray, published by Elizabeth d'Achery
hand-coloured etching, published 20 August 1782
NPG D12981
'Paridise regain'd' (King George IV; Charles James Fox; Mary Robinson (née Darby))
probably by James Gillray, published by J. Langham
hand-coloured etching, published 20 February 1783
NPG D12329
by James Gillray, published by William Holland
etching, published 5 April 1786
NPG D13051
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 2 June 1787
NPG D12362
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 2 June 1787
NPG D12363
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 16 June 1787
NPG D12365
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 21 May 1787
NPG D12994
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 29 May 1787
NPG D13062
by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 19 July 1788
NPG D12385
'The royal joke, - or - black jacks delight'
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 25 April 1788
NPG D12996
'The fall of Phaeton' (King George IV; Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe))
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 1 July 1788
NPG D12997
'Brunswick triumphant! or - the battle of the blood's, - pure, and contaminated'
by James Gillray, published by James Aitken
hand-coloured etching, published 23 May 1789
NPG D12400
'Bandelures' (King George IV; Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe); Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
etching and stipple, published 28 February 1791
NPG D12412
'A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion' (King George IV)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured stipple engraving, published 2 July 1792
NPG D33359
King George IV ('A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured stipple engraving, published 2 July 1792
NPG D12460
Charles James Fox ('Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 17 March 1792
NPG D12443
'Modern hospitality, - or - a friendly party in high life'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 31 March 1792
NPG D12447
Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Duchess of York and Albany
by Charlotte Zethen, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured stipple engraving, published 10 April 1792
NPG D12448
'The visit to Piccadilly; - or - a Prussian reception'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 July 1792
NPG D12462