'The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians', 1821. Artist: George Cruikshank

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'The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians', 1821. George IV, surrounded by admiring ministers, holds up an extinguisher made of paper, which he is about to place over a crowd of tiny Jacobites who surround Caroline of Brunswick and Alderman Wood.

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Photo credit: © The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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