The slap up swell wot drives when hever he likes

William Heath

The slap up swell wot drives when hever he likes

London, T McLean, April 1829

Etching

Original hand colouring

340 x 230 mm

Trimmed to decorative border

£220

George IV stands with legs apart, head turned in profile to the right, hands in the pockets of a greatcoat on which is a nosegay: rose, thistle, and shamrock. He wears a wide-brimmed hat as in prints of the Cottage diversions (cf. BM Satires No. 15541), and his greatcoat is open to show his double-breasted coat with star, worn with knee-breeches and pumps. Above his head are the words: ‘There’s been a D—d sight too much Chaffing about it.’