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The cartoon refers to George IV's attempt to dissolve his marriage to Caroline after his accession to the throne
and that the Budget was carefully calculated to squeeze as much from the tax payers as it was thought they could bear
'Born 10th October 1731 Died 24th February 1810
Rod Thornhill
with a gypciere hanging from it
Birth of St Edmund Size:L: 75 x 50cm The cartoon refers to GeorgeBirth of St Edmund, 1433, (1843). Copy from a manuscript of John Lydgate's Life of St Edmund the King and Martyr, about the life of Edmund, king of the East Angles, who was born at Nuremberg in 841 AD. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).