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Title
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George IV, relieving a poor family
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Actual Title
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George IV, relieving the prisoners (alt)
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Artist
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T. Stothard
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Type
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Engraving
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Lent By
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Rev. Stopford A. Brooke
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Catalog Number
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74
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Catalog Page
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11
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Catalog Description
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The story is told of George IV, when prince of Wales, hearing of any officer's family in distress; straightway borrowing six or eight hundred pounds, and in disguise carrying the money to the starving family.
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Curators Notes
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Option is "King George IV relieving the prisoners in Dorchester Jail, Dorset, 1820" (1820); seems to be licensed by Bridgeman Images
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Alt-Text
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A historical black-and-white illustration shows a king holding a scroll, facing a group of relieved and emotional women and children, with the caption The King Relieving the Prisoners in Dorchester Jail.
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status
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R. A.
