"An ancient Gothic church in the middle distance stands on a grassy hill inscribed 'Protestant Ascendency'; under the hill (left) is a cave, 'Cave of Catholic Ascendency', in which are barrels of 'Gun . Pow[der]'. A fat bare-footed friar walks away from the cave towards the picture-plane, carrying a lighted candle, and slyly laying a train of powder on the road to the cave. Standing round the church is a crowd of country people, listening to a parson who holds out to them a 'Petition to Parliament'. They are unconscious, not only that the ground beneath them is mined, but that men (right) are tugging at a rope looped round the steeple, which is about to crash. The rope-pullers are in the foreground (right); at the extreme end is Wellington with his back to the church, straining hard. Next is Peel, wearing an orange waistcoat (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15690) badly stained by the rope; Brougham, a broom-girl dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 14769, is next, with Mackintosh in Highland costume beside him. In front of them is Burdett, very tall and thin, holding up his hat and shouting 'Down with it--never mind the People' [see British Museum Satires No. 16058]. In front is O'Connell, in wig and gown, shouting, 'By St Patrick I've got the Rope over at Last.' Behind these principals are more men, tugging at a second rope. On a green field topping a cliff behind the church-breakers is Eldon wearing a smock and guiding a plough; he turns to shout to the petitioners by the church, who will be crushed by the falling tower: 'Look to your selves People.' Along the horizon (left) is a Papist procession with lighted tapers, the Host, crosses, a grotesque Pope, and figures under a canopy. It approaches St. Paul's whose dome rises above the sky-line. On the extreme right is the Monument (see British Museum satires no. 15688, &c.) in flames."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily publishing.
Publisher:
Pub. March 19, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),, Leo XII, Pope, 1760-1829., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Churches, Caves, Crowds, Monks, and Vandalism
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other caricatuers are daily pub
An obese John Bull depicted as a yokel in a smock, claps his hands to egg on a terrier with the head of Eldon who holds a rat with the head of Wellington in his teeth. John Bull says, "Thats right Old Boy, give it em what they thougth you had lost all your teeth. Give it' em Scott & lot." Other rats with human heads scurry away in terror, one with the head of Peel (?) has been flung into the air. John Bull stands in the doorway to the barn. The Church spire in the distance behind him is propped up by two beams, one of which is labelled: Prop
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment and John Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the vermin
Description:
Title etched below image., A figure of 'Paul Pry' is an artist's device used by William Heath., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of imprint., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Political & other caricatures daily pub., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26 x 37.3 cm, on sheet 29.3 x 43.2 cm., and Laid in James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Catholic emancipation, Hunting dogs, and Rats
An obese John Bull depicted as a yokel in a smock, claps his hands to egg on a terrier with the head of Eldon who holds a rat with the head of Wellington in his teeth. John Bull says, "Thats right Old Boy, give it em what they thougth you had lost all your teeth. Give it' em Scott & lot." Other rats with human heads scurry away in terror, one with the head of Peel (?) has been flung into the air. John Bull stands in the doorway to the barn. The Church spire in the distance behind him is propped up by two beams, one of which is labelled: Prop
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment and John Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the vermin
Description:
Title etched below image., A figure of 'Paul Pry' is an artist's device used by William Heath., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of imprint., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Political & other caricatures daily pub., and The date of imprint '1829' has been written in mss.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Catholic emancipation, Hunting dogs, and Rats
A Cardinal-Legate with attendant clergy gives absolution to Lyndhurst, Peel, and Wellington who kneel before a throne on a dais, their hands in prayer. Lyndhurst has the Purse of the Great Seal under his knees and the mace on the floor beside him. Attendant clergy include two obese monks or friars, one of whom holds a candle, the other a grotesque image of the Virgin. Also in attendance is a Jesuit who holds a triple cross and claps a rosary and a thin, sly-looking priest who also holds a candle
Description:
Title etched below image., The figure with hat and cane is a device of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and "Pl. 2"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Relations, Catholic Church, Catholic Emancipation, Cardinals, Monks, Podiums, and Priests
A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. As well as being cluttered with potions, the room contains an assortment of squabbling pets; on the wall hangs a painting depicting the attempted seduction of Susanna by the elders. The lettering below image, a recipe in verse, begins: "Take tacamahacca, an ounce & a half, a pound of good suet, from the skin of a calf, 3 barbicued apples, a ha'p'orth of pears, 3 dragon flies pounded, the ear wax of bears, a small peice of cheese, a little gum copal, some putrified salt with some essence of opal ..."
Description:
Title etched below image, as the heading to the recipe in verse., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., For a later state lacking the recipe below image and with the new title "Mixing a recipe for corns", see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., "January 12th, 1467. Copied from the Black Letter"--Beneath recipe in verse., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Panaceas, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
"Young woman dressed in her ballgown half-reclines on a settee in her bedroom while her elderly maid yawns with tiredness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A figure of Paul Pry., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1995,0930.40., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked paper: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ball dresses, Bedrooms, Couches, Yawning, Candles, Dogs, and Women domestics
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publishing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
