The sign of the four alls

Title:: The sign of the four alls
Description:: The four personages who constitute this famous view of the relative estates of the realm stand under niches ; the head of the State is the first represented ; and next, of course, is the Church ; then the powers militant ; and lastly, as a sort of necessary evil, the commonalty perhaps better kept out of sight altogether, since the presence of the representative of this portion of the empire is not acknowledged by the other three, his pastors and masters. Number one, George the Third ; the King in this case is represented strutting in awful but somewhat awkward majesty.
Artist:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Date:: 1810
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Satires (Visual works)
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:: The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2
Subjects:: Kings
Bishops
Soldiers
Farmers
John Bull (Symbolic character)
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Extent:: 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
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Publisher:: No. 111 Cheapside : T. Tegg
Language:: English
Notes:: Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 195
On item: No. 13
Notes (acquisition):: The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):: Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):: Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):: Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2," the second volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:: 18_03_000385
Barcode:: 36666003262512