Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (King George III) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.
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1 print : etching ; image 16.8 x 11.4 cm
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The mother and the child. Privy purse in 1753. Privy purse in 1773. GR.II; GR.III.
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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. v, London 1933, no. 5105
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Wellcome Collection 39096i
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