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our cut No. 229, king George, feated, is reprefentcd nurfing
feeding the royal infant in an extraordinary degree of homelineiis.
is iinging the nurfery rhyme-
and
He
Tlzere was a lauglz and a cmw,
Tlzere -was a giggling bane],
Goody good girl [hall befkd,
But naughty girl [72411] 1111-11: mmey.
This print bears no name, but it is known to be by Woodward, though
it betrays an attempt to imitate the ityle of Gillray. Gillray was often
imitated in this manner, and his prints were not unfrequently copied and
pirated. He even at times copied himfelf, and clifguifed his own Iiyle,
for the fake ofgaining money.
At the period of the regency bill in 1789, Gillray attacked Pitt's
policy in that aifair with great feverity. In a caricature publifhed on the
3rd of January, he drew the premier in the charafter of an over-gorged
vulture, with one claw fixed firmly on the crown and fceptre, and with
the