Pl 10  "Clerk of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, in Ordinary 19th July 1821"

George Augustus Frederick IV King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover was crowned on the 29th day of January 1820. History has remembered him as an extravagant monarch who patronized the arts, meddled in political affairs, detested his wife, and doted on the ladies. So fond of the ladies was he that he collected a lock of hair from each woman he was with, sealing the hair in envelopes. It is said that at his death he had 7,000 envelopes! At the time of his coronation, George IV was obese and possibly addicted to laudanum. He also displayed some of the signs of the dementia that had affected his father. George IV's coronation was one of the most elaborate and expensive affairs ever mounted. His wife was purposefully excluded from attending the affair which cost upwards of 900,000 pounds! Upon George IV's death in 1830 the London Times commented "There never was an individual regretted less by his fellow creatures than this deceased King"If he ever had a friend - a devoted friend in any rank of life - we protest that the name of him or her never reached us." This engraving was included in Sir George Naylor's large folio volume entitled, The Coronation of His most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth", published in London
in 1837.

22.5 x 16 inches sheet size
Engraving with original hand color on Whatman paper. Clean and crisp impression in excellent condition.