King Henry IV [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- King Henry IV [graphic]
- Creator
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Contributor
- McLean, T. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [June 1827?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
- Abstract
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"George IV, as Falstaff, sits in a high-backed chair with a grotesquely fat Doll Tearsheet (Lady Conyngham) on his knee. He holds a large glass of wine and looks at her with appraising melancholy. She pouts her lips to kiss. Their words are engraved below: Falstaff--hou dost give me flattering busses. Doll Nay, truly; I kiss thee with a constant heart. Fal-I am old, I am old. Doll-I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young boy of them all. --vide Shakspeare ['II Henry IV, II. iv.] Behind (right) stands Bardolph, with the head and nose of Curtis, talking to a lean Mrs. Quickly, who has the unmistakable profile of Lord Conyngham, behind whom a huge antlered stag's head looks down from the wall. Both women wear steeple-crowned hats, but the dress of one is flamboyant and ornate, of the other demure. A man looks in cautiously from the doorway. On the wall is a hanging on which is depicted the Prodigal Son turning his back on trough and swine to receive his father's embrace."--British Museum catalogue
- Description
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Title from text above image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Text below image begins: Falstaff: Thou dost give me flattering busses. Doll: Nay, truly; I kiss thee with a constant heart ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 173.
Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827. - Provenance
- Caricatures II; September 1968;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 36.1 x 25 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 827.06.00.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1827
Etchings England London 1827
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Artists' devices - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832
Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829 - Subjects
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832 > Caricatures and cartoons
Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1827
England > London > 1827
19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9560951
- Object ID (OID)
- 10970345