Warren Hastings in oriental dress kneels full-face on one knee between two cards showing Thurlow on the left and the head of George III on the right. Etching by ?J. Baldrey, 1788.
- Baldrey, J.
- Date:
- Feb 8 1788
- Reference:
- 585377i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
One of many caricatures in which supporters of Hastings (Governor general of India), among them the King and Lord Thurlow, then Lord Chancellor, are alleged to be bribed by gifts of jewels
Publication/Creation
[London] (no. 19 Holborn) : Pub. for S. Doughty and Co., Feb 8 1788.
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image 20.4 x 24.4 cm, platemark (width only) 26.2 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Court cards the best to deal with
Inscribed top left: Plate 1
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1978, no. 7264
Reference
Wellcome Collection 585377i
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores