King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820

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King George III standing, in military uniform; horse in the background. Etching and stipple by B. Smith after W. Beechey, 1804.

King George III analysing the residue from a large glass retort containing a small figure; representing the English view of Napoleon. Coloured aquatint by T. West, 1803.

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (King George III) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.

King George III sits at a table approached by his son, the Prince of Wales. Engraving, 1770.

King George III dispensing Maundy money. Engraving by James Basire, 1777, after S.H. Grimm, 1773.

Report from the Committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty [George III] during his illness, touching the present state of His Majesty's health.

The Prince of Wales looks from a window of Carlton House at a crowd of people and a woman on a broomstick; George III looks on through a telescope. Coloured etching by "H. Shade" after "Nicholas Lunatic".

The Lord Mayor of London kneels before King George III and presents a remonstrance on behalf of the City of London: the king has no time to read it as he is preoccupied with making buttons. Engraving, 1770.

King George III in old age, seated in an armchair. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1820.

King George III giving money from his purse to a woman who is raking hay near Weymouth, Dorset. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1820.

King George III. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1820.

King George III. Mezzotint by C. Turner, ca. 1820.

King George III. Engraving by E. Scriven after W. Beechey, 1806.

A group of men from the Ministry sit drinking around a table in celebration of the Catholic emancipation bill as the ghost of Charles James Fox appears on the right and Sheridan falls off his chair to vomit over a copy of a petition. Engraving by Adolphe after W. O'Keefe, 1807.

Medical biographies : the ailments of thirty-three famous persons / by Philip Marshall Dale ; foreword by Howard F. Stein.

A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.

Sir Joseph Banks. Line engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after T. Phillips.

The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and the masts of ships. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1776, after B. West, the elder, 1770.

Anno regni Georgii III ... undecimo.

Anno quadragesimo quarto Georgii III Regis. Cap. XCVIII. An Act to repeal the several duties under the Commissioners for managing the duties upon stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, in Great Britain, and to grant new and additional duties in lieu thereof.

Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, octavo. At the parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the nineteenth day of May, anno dom. 1761, in the first year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty fourth day of November, 1767, being the seventh session of the twelfth parliament of Great Britain.

Anno tricesimo nono Georgii III. Regis. Cap. LXXX. An act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa. [12th July 1799.].

Anno quadragesimo septimo Georgii III. Regis. Sess. 2. Cap. XXIX. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia in Great Britain for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. [1st August 1807.].

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Anno regni Georgii III ... undecimo.

Anno quadragesimo quarto Georgii III Regis. Cap. XCVIII. An Act to repeal the several duties under the Commissioners for managing the duties upon stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, in Great Britain, and to grant new and additional duties in lieu thereof.

Anno tricesimo nono Georgii III. Regis. Cap. LXXX. An act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa. [12th July 1799.].

Anno quadragesimo septimo Georgii III. Regis. Sess. 2. Cap. XXIX. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia in Great Britain for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. [1st August 1807.].

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Anno regni Georgii III ... undecimo.

Anno quadragesimo quarto Georgii III Regis. Cap. XCVIII. An Act to repeal the several duties under the Commissioners for managing the duties upon stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, in Great Britain, and to grant new and additional duties in lieu thereof.

Anno tricesimo nono Georgii III. Regis. Cap. LXXX. An act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa. [12th July 1799.].

Anno quadragesimo septimo Georgii III. Regis. Sess. 2. Cap. XXIX. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia in Great Britain for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. [1st August 1807.].

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