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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Monstrous craws, at a new coalition feast
Description
English: The King, Queen, and Prince of Wales, seated round a bowl of guineas, ladle coins into their mouths with both hands. The King (right) and Queen (left), three quarter length figures, sit facing each other, supporting on their knees the bowl, which is inscribed 'John Bull's Blood'. The Queen is grotesquely caricatured as a lean and avaricious hag, eagerly cramming the contents of two ladles into her mouth; the King is dressed as an old woman. The Prince (centre), scarcely caricatured, sits full-face behind the bowl, wearing a fool's cap trimmed with three ostrich feathers. All three have throats terminating in long pelicanlike pouches; that of the Prince is empty, the other two are full. The King's ladles are much larger than those of his wife and son. The Prince's ladles are inscribed '£10000 pr An' and '£60000 pr An'. They are seated outside the gate of the 'Treasury', represented as usual by a spiked gate across a stone archway, but the gate is open behind the head of the Prince. 29 May 1787
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: Charlotte, Queen of George III
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 368 millimetres
Width: 469 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1868,0808.10314
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the quasi-reconciliation between the Prince and his parents which took place when Pitt recommended to Parliament a vote of £161,000 to pay the Prince's debts, £20,000 for completing Carlton House, and an increase of £10,000 to his annual income of £50,000 and the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall (see BMSat 6259, &c.). For the reconciliation see 'Auckland Correspondence', i. 418, 426-7; Wilkins, 'Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV', i. 211-12. See also BMSat 7165, &c, and for the Prince's debts BMSats 6965, &c. For the supposed miserliness of the King and Queen see BMSats 7836, &c. Three persons with 'craws' (apparently goitres) were exhibited in London as 'Wild-born human beings' (plate pub. by Bowles 14 May 1787), and the 'monstrous craws' were often mentioned, e.g. Walpole, 'Letters', xiv. 19.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 88 (reproduction). Wright and Evans, No. 24.
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