"O'h what a falling off was there fully accou-tred the hero lay / [graphic]

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Title: "O'h what a falling off was there fully accou-tred the hero lay / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Oh what a falling off was there
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [29 May 1829]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. May 29, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Abstract: "After the title: 'fully accow [crossed out and replaced with a 'u'] --tred the Hero lay.' Above the design: 'Review--PI 2.' Wellington, sword in hand, falls from his horse, his white trousers crashing into a patch of cow-dung. He wears (in place of his field-marshal's cocked hat) a bearskin so enormous that it may well have overbalanced him. His horse stands beside him, pawing the ground. Behind (right) a group of mounted officers watch the accident. On the left two privates in huge bearskins stand at attention."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
The "w" in "accow-tred" in subtitle is scored through and a "u" etched above it.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatuers.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 211.
Provenance: Caricatures II; September 1968;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.2 x 36 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1829
Etchings England London 1829
Artists' devices
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic): Daggers & swords
Hides & skins
Horses
Military officers
British
Military uniforms
Subjects: Daggers & swords
Hides & skins
Horses
Military officers > British
Military uniforms > British
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1829
England > London > 1829
19th century

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