1 Jan 1789 Jahr - Political Satire

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Source Cited:
McPherson, Heather. Art & Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds & Siddons. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017, pp. 134-135.

"James Gillray's 'The Rival Queens,' or 'a Political Heat for Rege & Grege [...] exemplifies the ways in which politics and the stage mirrored and fed off each other."

"This lively, politically charged image satirizes the 1788 Regency crisis and the prince's reckless, lascivious lifestyle, and it strikes a nationalistic note by slyly alluding to the suspicion that Queen Charlott was secretly funneling money to Germany through Mrs. Schwellenberg."

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