A Terrible Lesson? ‘A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper’, Gillray, 1792
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‘A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper’, Gillray, 1792
In this remarkable cartoon, published weeks before the collapse of constitutional monarchy in France, King George III is shown examining a fashionably small portrait, or Cooper. The face however is that of Oliver Cromwell - as a reminder perhaps to England of how its own history carried a terrible lesson in the dangers of a radical Republic.
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A Terrible Lesson? ‘A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper’, Gillray, 1792, © Kate Watson, licensed under 
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