Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: For November 1827. To be continued every month., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"George IV, as Falstaff, sits in a high-backed chair with a grotesquely fat Doll Tearsheet (Lady Conyngham) on his knee. He holds a large glass of wine and looks at her with appraising melancholy. She pouts her lips to kiss. Their words are engraved below: Falstaff--hou dost give me flattering busses. Doll Nay, truly; I kiss thee with a constant heart. Fal-I am old, I am old. Doll-I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young boy of them all. --vide Shakspeare ['II Henry IV, II. iv.] Behind (right) stands Bardolph, with the head and nose of Curtis, talking to a lean Mrs. Quickly, who has the unmistakable profile of Lord Conyngham, behind whom a huge antlered stag's head looks down from the wall. Both women wear steeple-crowned hats, but the dress of one is flamboyant and ornate, of the other demure. A man looks in cautiously from the doorway. On the wall is a hanging on which is depicted the Prodigal Son turning his back on trough and swine to receive his father's embrace."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue., Text below image begins: Falstaff: Thou dost give me flattering busses. Doll: Nay, truly; I kiss thee with a constant heart ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 173., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, and Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J. Didsbury, Southampton Street, Strand
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Four lines of verse on either side of title: Sport that wrinkled care derides, fashion showing off besides ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: Quadrille. Evening fashions. Dedicated to the heads of the nation., Two lines of verse on both sides of title: "Nature, I thought, perform'd too mean a parte, Forming her movements to the rules of art, And Vex'd I found the dandy barbers hand, Had o'er the dancers heads too great command. Prior"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Beards, Couples, Dandies, and Dance
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Chancery -- Law -- Mystery., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication taken from date following artist's attriubtion., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: French fashion -- Young woman -- Curtains -- Vases., and Watermark: 1825.
Publisher:
Published by J. Didsbury, 22 Southampton Street, Covent Garden
Title from text above each pair of images., Date of publication based on watermark., Design consists of two sets of paired images on one plate; each pair is titled above and each image is captioned below., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Numbering in title for uppermost pair of images has been changed in ms. from "9" to "1"., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
