George III: A Life in Caricature

Kenneth Baker discusses the many facets of King George and shows how these were depicted by the great caricaturists of the day.

Kenneth Baker | Published in History Today Volume 57 Issue 10 October 2007

In A new way to pay the National Debt (1786), James Gillray caricatured George III and Queen Charlotte awash with treasury funds to cover royal debts, with Pitt handing him another moneybag.Horace Walpole, writing to a friend, reported the death of George II on October 25th, 1760:

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