print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Y,10.22
- Title
- Object: Game [Mr George Onslow]
- Description
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Portrait of George Onslow as a cock-fighter, walking from the spectator, but turning his head in profile to the left. He wears a plain hat and coat, top-boots with spurs like those attached to the legs of game-cocks, and holds a riding-whip in his right hand. In the foreground stands a spurred game-cock, crowing. 7 June 1782
Etching
- Production date
- 1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 136 millimetres
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Width: 90 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', V, 1935)
Colonel Onslow (1731-92), M.P. for Guildford, called little Cocking George, see BMSat 4852, 4855, was a firm supporter of North's Ministry. He made a notable speech on 15 Mar. 1782 denouncing Opposition leaders as the chief cause of the loss of America. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, ii. 229-30. 'Parl. Hist.' xxii. 1175-7. Cf. BMSat 5641, 6029.
Placed in Sarah Sophia Banks's album of the work of James Sayers.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,10.22