print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1866,1110.1459
- Title
- Object: A new coalition mask.
- Description
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An imitation of Sayers's famous print, see BMSat 6234. A composite mask formed of the faces of Wilkes and George III divided vertically by a line down the centre. Beneath the design is etched:
'Now Jacky & Georgee together is Joind,
The people may weep for it is a verry bad Sign,
For Jackys determind to have some more pelf,
Let who will Starve, he will serve himself.' 17 May 1784
Etching
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 241 millimetres
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Width: 187 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
One of several satires on the ending of the feud between Wilkes and the king, see BMSat 6568, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1110.1459