The Infant Hercules, Thomas Rowlandson, February 3, 1784
The Infant Hercules, February 3, 1784, Hand-colored etching, Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 5/8 in. ( × cm), Prints, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), In 1783, at the age of twenty-four, William Pitt became the youngest person ever to head the British government. King George III, who had become fed up with the machinations of a Whig coalition led by Charles James Fox and Frederick Lord North, finally prevailed upon Pitt to accept the premiership
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