No. 226. A Connoisseur in Art.
From this time Gillray rarely let pass an opportunity of caricaturing the king. Sometimes he pictured his awkward and undignified gait, as he was accustomed to shuffle along the esplanade at Weymouth; sometimes in the familiar manner in which, in the course of his walks in the neighbourhood of his Windsor farm, he accosted the commonest labourers and cottagers, and overwhelmed them with a long repetition of trivial questions—for king George had a characteristic manner of repeating his questions, and of frequently giving the reply to them himself.
No. 227. Royal Affability.
No. 228. A Lesson in Apple Dumplings.
Then asks the farmer’s wife, or farmer’s maid,
How many eggs the fowls have laid;
What’s in the oven, in the pot, the crock;
Whether ’twill rain or no, and what’s o’clock;