Actor of all work [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Actor of all work [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- All the world's a stage &c. S-
- Creator
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Contributor
- McLean, T. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [15 June 1829]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. June 15, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
- Abstract
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"Wellington sits behind a small cloth-covered table flanked by eight other representations of himself, as depicted in recent caricatures, apparently all by W. Heath. The arrangement is evidently that of Charles Mathews' 'At Homes', see British Museum Satires No. 14714, &c., Wellington, like Mathews, being in propria persona at the table. In this guise he wears the robes (indistinguishable from Coronation robes) and collar of the Garter and the order of the Golden Fleece and a (crown-like) ducal coronet; his head is turned in profile to the right. Immediately below him, the head and hands of another Wellington, who is crouching on the floor, project from the tablecloth; he grasps a royal crown, and wears a cap coloured blue and resembling a tam-o'-shanter, but perhaps intended for a coronet. The other Wellingtons, all standing (left to right): [1] A mute as in British Museum Satires No. 15501, in profile to the right. [2] A Grenadier, full-face and rigidly at attention, much as in British Museum Satires No. 15768, but without the musket. [3] A ratcatcher stooping to the left and touching his hat, the cage in his left hand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15806). [4] Aged and cloaked, wearing spectacles, with bowed head, he clasps a cross in both hands. [5] The old woman in a soldier's coat of British Museum Satires No. 15721, facing, and apparently in angry altercation with, the seated Wellington. [6] The coachman of British Museum Satires No. 15731, in profile to the left, holding shaft and lash of his whip as if they were the reins of a four-in-hand which he is driving. [7] Wellington in uniform, directed to the left, wearing his plumed cocked hat and holding up with a furtive expression a sword with a damaged blade in a dilapidated scabbard. [8] A mummy-case with an aperture to show Wellington's head with the forefingers compressing his mouth; below the aperture is the word 'Mum'. (Apparently from a satire on Wellington's silence as to his intentions on Catholic Relief until the eve of the opening of Parliament, see British Museum Satires No. 15659.) There is a background of curtains. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 15787."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Publisher's annnouncement following imprint: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures, none are original without T. McLeans name as publisher.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828. - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; May 2023.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 25 x 35 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 829.06.15.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Parodies, imitations, etc
Satires (Visual works) England 1829
Etchings England London 1829
Artists' devices
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835. - Subject (Topic)
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Tables
Robes
Crowns
Military uniforms
Daggers & swords
Coach drivers
Sarcophagi
Draperies - Subjects
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Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835 > Parodies, imitations, etc
Tables
Robes
Crowns
Military uniforms
Daggers & swords
Coach drivers
Sarcophagi
Draperies
England > 1829
England > London > 1829
J. Whatman Turkey Mill > 1828
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16658593
- Object ID (OID)
- 33111779