Stanhope crouches in profile to the right, his elbows resting on his thighs; he excretes into an inverted earl's coronet, and urinates upon an inverted mitre in which a small tree (? of liberty) is planted. Beside it are a book of 'homilies' and a 'book [of] common pray[er]'. He tears a profile bust portrait of george iii, dividing the head from the body. He wears a bonnet-rouge, a tattered tricolour blouse, a belt round the waist in which a dagger is thrust inscribed 'a deo et rege' (his family motto). His legs are bare. The head is a very fair portrait, but his finger-nails and toe-nails are talons. 10 june 1794. Hand-coloured etching. Date: 1794. Dimensions: Height: 372 mm; Width: 250 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: George III, King of the United Kingdom. Collection: British Museum. The renunciation of an ex noble now become a republican sans-culotte citizen. (BM 1868,0808.6352)
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