Irish M.P.'s [graphic]

Description

Title: Irish M.P.'s [graphic]
Alternative Title: Irish MPs
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [1829]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Abstract: An Irish schoolmaster-priest, sits in a chair taking a pinch of snuff from an open snuff box as he catechizes a dwarfish Irish peasant, ragged and barelegged, who answers with a sly grin: 'O'C -- for O'Connell thats right--now Pat what does MP stand for eh?' Answer: 'Mealy Potato'. On the table to the right is a crucifix used to prop open a book. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Date of publication inferred from references to Daniel O'Connell and Catholic emancipation.
Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publishing.
For a brief description of this print, see entry for no. 15684 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, page 102.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 3 October 2018, lot 297. Purchased through Jarndyce; October 2018.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26 x 38 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 44 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1829
Etchings England London 1829
Artists' devices
Material: etching, hand-colored ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
Subject (Topic): Catholic emancipation
Crucifixes
Ethnic stereotypes
Peasants
Priests
Snuff
Teachers
Subjects: O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
Catholic emancipation > Great Britain
Crucifixes
Ethnic stereotypes
Peasants
Priests
Snuff
Teachers
England > 1829
England > London > 1829

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