Portrait of King George IV of England, in ceremonial robes, ermine mantle, with crown, orb and sceptre, cape held by two pages. Emblems indicate expeditions to the Arctic Regions by Captain Perry, Rose adn Franklin, new London Bridge, tunnel under the River Thames and concession of Catholic claims. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Mary Ann Rundall from A Symbolical History of England, from Early Times to the Reign of William IV, Truchy, Paris, 1839. Mary Ann Rundall was a teacher of young ladies in Bath, and published her book of mnemonic emblems in 1815.

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