Prince Stadhold--r resuming his deliberation, British Cartoon Print, Thomas Colley

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Prince Stadhold--r resuming his deliberation, British Cartoon Print, Thomas Colley

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Print shows a caricature of Prince William V of Holland as a slightly obese man, of deficient intellect, with empty ("MT") trouser pockets, and holding a sword by the blade against his breast, while notes and voices about how poorly the war in America is going for him unsettle his thoughts.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6038
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 825.

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01/01/1782
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Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, artist
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Library of Congress
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