Stipple (coloured impression). George III (T. Q. L.) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The H. L., looking to the right, in arour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapain's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all. The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth are exaggerated. The print is said (by Angelo) to have been Gillray's retaliation for the contempt with which the King treated the sketches brought back from his foreign tour with Loutherbourg. This tour, however, was in 1793, and it should be remembered that Cromwell, not yet rehabilitated, was still a villain. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 148. Wright and Evans, No. 84. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, i. 297 (coloured); Fuchs, p. 254. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8107.