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
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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

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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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