2-709-660 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Le Roy le veut!" G. R.', c1820. 'The King desires it!'; satirical cartoon of George IV being crowned with a bag of money, while a priest reads from "Common Prayer with Omiissions". From "The Queen's matrimonial ladder", a political pamphlet with wood engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, published after the opening of the trial of Queen Caroline (1768-1821, also known as Caroline of Brunswick, consort of King George IV), in August 1820. [William Hone, London]. Included in an album containing portraits and satirical caricatures related to the trial.