Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (the future King George III?) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.
Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (the future King George III?) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (the future King George III?) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The mother and the child. Privy purse in 1753. Privy purse in 1773. GR.II; GR.III.

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