Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker / Subject (Topic): Mistresses

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1. A fishing party what great enjoyments rise 'from trivial things'". [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [27 June 1827]
Call Number:: 827.06.27.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Pushed by Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, George IV, more corpulent than in other prints, walks in an ornate circular stand or support on castors (as used for toddling children, cf. British Museum satires no. 7497) towards Virginia Water (right), his fishing-rod against his shoulder. He wears a hat with a wide curving brim inscribed á la Townsend [cf. British Museum satires no. 10293], double-breasted tail-coat, breeches, and pumps; his right arm rests on the ring of the stand, in his hand is a small book: Old Izack [Walton]. From the stand dangles an ornate reticule: Fish Bag; the base is decorated with two fat squatting mandarins. Lady Conyngham looks over her right shoulder at the King, puffing from her effort, but singing Rule Britannia; the crossbar at which she tugs is a sceptre. She wears an enormous ribbon-trimmed bonnet and décolletée dress; the hook from the King's line has caught in her dress which strains across her vast posterior as she leans forward. Knighton wears a court-suit with bag-wig and sword. He pushes with both hands with great concentration, singing, Send him Victorious. In his coat-pocket are a clyster-pipe and a paper: Petition of the Unborn Babes. A signpost terminating in a realistic hand points To Virginia Water. There is a background of trees and water."--British Museum online catalogue and A later impression [i.e. state] of British Museum Satires No. 15413 ... A scroll has been added beside Knighton's coat-tails inscribed with his 'places of profit': Clerk of Stannaries Recr Genl Duchy of Cornwall, Privy Purse &c &c &c. See Diary of H. Hobhouse, loc. cit. A border has been added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pub. June 27th, 1827, by S.W. Fores, Pciadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):: Bonnets, Fishing & hunting gear, Mistresses, Obesity, Physicians, British, Pulling, Scepters, Medical equipment & supplies, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fishing party what great enjoyments rise 'from trivial things'". [graphic]

2. King State the cuckold endeavouring to trample on the people with one foot, & kick out the Queen with the other* [graphic].

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 December 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A stuffed figure of George IV, heavy, inert, and puppet-like, wearing royal robes and with massive antlers on his forehead, is supported by his three chief Ministers. Under his legs are two prostrate men; his left foot is planted on the face of one who wears the remains of a tattered shoe. Sidmouth takes his right leg and holds it out towards the Queen, who escapes to the left. She is protected by John Bull, a stout countryman, who smashes the King's extended leg with a cudgel of 'oak', breaking off the foot. John, with clenched fist, says: "Dom thee, what Kick a defenceless Woman 'the Cowardly Rascal!" Castlereagh and Liverpool (right) support the King's shoulders. Behind (right) is a copy of British Museum Satires No. 13765: the King sleeps in a cradle (as in British Museum Satire No. 13764, &c.) rocked by Lady Conyngham, who sings: "hush my babe lie still & slumber 'tis Eliza guards thy Bed." The cradle is decorated with a pagoda, the Royal Arms, and a nude obese squatting Chinese, symbolizing the King. The Queen, looking behind her vengefully, escapes towards a Chinese doorway. Chinese paintings decorate the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text below title: *Vide Mr. Marsh's incomparable speech (at Reading) both for wit & point., Occasioned by a speech at Reading by Henry Marsh, a Berkshire magistrate. See: The Times, 11 December 1820., Publisher's announcement in lower right: Pub. by Fores 41 Piccadilli [sic] with a caricature print at top price 1s./-., Watermark: G. Pike 1820., Window mounted to 25.1 x 34.5 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 36 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Caroline," "Sidmouth," "Geo. IV [stuffed figure]," "Londondery [sic]," "Liverpool," "Lady Conyngham," and "Geo. IV [as infant]" identified in ink below image; date "26 Dec. 1820" written in lower right corner.
Publisher:: Pub. Dec. 26, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Divorce, John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Robes, Antlers, Infants, Cradles, Coats of arms, and Doors & doorways
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > King State the cuckold endeavouring to trample on the people with one foot, & kick out the Queen with the other* [graphic].

3. The guard wot looks arter the sovereign [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [28 April 1829]
Call Number:: 829.04.28.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lady Conyngham stands directed to the left, feet apart, dressed as in British Museum satires no. 15720; she amusingly combines the ultra-feminine with masculine attributes and stance. She is immensely fat and wide with small cherubic features and curls; under her left arm is a cocked blunderbuss. She wears a wide-brimmed hat, a neckcloth fastened with a jewelled crown, a coach-guard's greatcoat, wide open over her tight-waisted dress. A pouch hangs from her shoulder and two coach-horns from her left arm. Above her head: 'I says to our Governor says I--keep your eye on them ere Leaders George'; i.e. on Lyndhurst and Scarlett, see British Museum satires nos. 15720, 15850. Cf. British Museum satires no. 15716."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Publisher's advertisement below imprint: Caricatuer [sic] daily pub.
Publisher:: Pub. April 28, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863., and Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844.
Subject (Topic):: Guards, Firearms, Mistresses, and Obesity
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The guard wot looks arter the sovereign [graphic]