[Williams (Charles)] pseud. Argus.

, S. W. Fores, 1820.
a satire on the attempts of crown, church and state, represented on the right by the newly ascended King George IV and an entourage of lords, ministers and an archbishop, to ward off the hugely popular figure of Caroline of Brunswick, the de facto Queen Consort but long-estranged wife of George, here standing to the left beside the figures of Britannia and the British lion. In the centre between the two groups hovers the spectral figure of Caroline and George’s only child, the late Princess Charlotte, who had died in childbirth three years earlier. She had been the next in line to the throne after George, and so would have represented her mother’s best prospect of readmission to respectability and official acceptance after years of speculation about, and attempts by George and his supporters to prove, her adultery and other behaviour considered grounds for the divorce he desperately sought, as represented by the spears waved and thrown by his group in this scene, each bearing such words as ‘Licentiousness’, ‘Indecency’, ‘Divorce, Defamation, Adultery’. In stark contrast, Caroline is depicted in the most demure, shapeless, full-length black dress of a grieving mother, crying out to her daughter in fear at her vulnerability in her isolation. The spirit of her daughter Charlotte, carrying a shield marked ;A Nation’s Love;, cries out in response to appeal to the British people to save her mother in memory of their affection for her..
240 by 340mm (9½ by 13½ inches).