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'Vices overlook'd in the new proclamation' NPG D12456

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

With enough vices and unfolding scandals to occupy satirists for years, George III's profligate sons provided a rich source of material for artists such as Gillray. Through Gillray's pencil the Prince of Wales developed into an increasingly obese, spoilt and ridiculous figure, surrounded by food, liquor and his string of mistresses. In this instance the heir to the throne is mocked by a fat bawd as he is led, drunk and incapable, into the street. The miserly existence of the King and Queen is contrasted... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.