A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them

A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them

The Opposition politicians are represented as quacks beguiling the people with advocacy of reform and clamour against corruption in high places. Samuel Whitbread stands on a platform holding a placard inscribed "Infallible panacea-Reform"; in his coat pockets are medicine bottles, one of them labelled "Whitbreads intire". On the left Sheridan plays the part of the zany
1 print : etching, with aquatint and watercolour ; image 18.5 x 48.2 cm

Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty"

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1949, vol. 9, no. 11846
Wellcome Collection
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/q2ga4bs2

[London] (5 Newgate Street) : M. Jones, 1 Feb[r]u[a]ry 1812

1812

The personification of death holds a pair of shears