A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.

King George III and Queen Charlotte, seated at a latrine, receive with agitation news from William Pitt the younger, who tells them that the King of Sweden had been assassinated. Etching by J. Gillray, 1792.

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