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Among Gillray's best satires on George III are: Farmer George and his Wife, two companion plates, in one of which the king is toasting muffins for breakfast, and in the other the queen is frying sprats ; The Anti-Saccharites, where the royal pair propose to dispense with sugar, to the great horror of the family ; A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper ; the paired plates A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion and Temperance enjoying a Frugal Meal, satirising the excesses of the Prince Regent ( later George IV of the United Kingdom ) and the miserliness of his father, George III of the United Kingdom respectively ; Royal Affability ; A Lesson in Apple Dumplings ; and The Pigs Possessed.
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