"On the pavement outside a pawnshop are a man selling pamphlets and a woman with household goods tied up in two handkerchiefs. The man is a ragged shambling scarecrow, tall and thin, with a battered top-hat, shock of hair, and huge whiskers (signs of dandyism). On his tall pole is a placard 'NO POPERY', the latter word bisected by the pole. He squints downwards, saying, 'a full account of the Interest taken by the whole House'. The woman, stout and proletarian, wearing a red cloak and an apron, looks up at the placard, saying, 'No Pop--ery eh? I suppose since Old Grindall's Sons got into the Parliament, they are asham'd of their Trade--well there is plenty of other pop-ery's about--& as to Interest they always took enough of that you ugly Scarecrow.' On the closed shop-door (left) are the three balls sign and Pawnbrokers '[M]oney Lent'. In the window hang watches, &c. The cobbled roadway leads (right) towards the arched entrance of a narrow alley: 'Poppings Court'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily pub., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to: 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 10th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Peddlers, Pawnshops, Storefronts, Doors & doorways, and Show windows
"The Duchess of St. Albans, fat, flamboyant, moustached, and smiling, stands on a carpeted floor, a glove in one hand, three large feathers in her hair. Curious draperies decorate a deep border to her skirt, and are seemingly intended for money-bags. On the wall is a small framed picture of a melon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15458). Above: 'Sure thou wert form'd by all the Gods in Council; Who having made a lucky hit, | beyond their journey-work, Cry'd out,--"This is a Woman!"'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hugeous Duchess
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title etched above image: Hugeous Duchess., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., Watermarked paper: J. Whatman 1829., and Offprint on verso
Publisher:
Pub. by E. King, Chancery Lane
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
"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
Alternative Title:
All the world's a stage &c. S-
Description:
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., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pub. June 15, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Robes, Crowns, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, Coach drivers, Sarcophagi, and Draperies
"The irradiated head of George IV in profile to the left, is almost covered by the darkly shaded head of Wellington, which is almost full-face, but glaring to the right with fierce yet apprehensive melancholy. From this darkened mask slants down and to the right a broadening shadow which passes across a terrestrial globe at the base of the design, covering an island inscribed 'England', but leaving 'Ireland' (right) unobscured. The rays from the King's head, only a few of which are covered by the shadow, extend to the margins and illuminate the edge of a border of dark cloud."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Eclipse lately discovered in the Georgium Sidus, and quite unexpected by any of the astronomers
Description:
Title etched below image., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., and Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue: June 1829.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
"Scarlett, in wig and gown, stands in profile to the left, his right forefinger knowingly before his face, his eye a mere slit. His gown is looped over his left arm and he holds a bulky (blue) brief-bag. Above: '"To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!' ['Henry V', II. iii]. (He is identified with the horse-leech, symbol of the traditional rapacity of the lawyer.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image., and Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath.
Publisher:
Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures - none are original with T. McLeans name
"Wellington, in old-fashioned dress except for boots reaching to the calves, stands full-face, holding out a large Grenadier's bearskin in his right hand, a coaching whip in the other. He wears a white wig projecting behind his head, spectacles on his forehead, flowered waistcoat, full-skirted coat with wide cuffs. Across his shoulder is the black scarf of the mute. He turns his head in profile to the right. A curving inscription is above his head, issuing from his mouth: 'Cabinetmaker | Undertaker \ Finance \ Beat France \ Bony parte \ Made him smart \ Address the house \ Quiet as mouse \ Reason & rhyme \ Minister prime | Good job | Man Bob [Peel] | Situation \ Manage the Nation \ Make em Rat \ Know what I'm at | Duel fight \ All right \ Tories & Whigs | Running riggs | Parsons rich | Palm itch \ Great Nob \ Drive the Sov- | Grenadier | I'm here \ Mancipation \ Astonish the Nation'. Below the title: 'He is all--he is evry thing--he Parish could not go on without him--He has more trades than hairs in his wig'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image. Plate 9 is misnumbered "11"., Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath., and Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, volume 11, number 15787
Publisher:
Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures. None are original without his name
"Henry Hunt (right) hurls a jar of his 'Hunts Matchless Blacki[ng]' at the Lord Mayor (William Thompson). The Mayor, who wears his gown, raises the City mace defensively in both hands. Hunt registers frenzied rage; he holds a second jar in his left hand; at his feet is a paper: 'Petition against increased Duty on Coals'. Just behind him is a pugnacious coal-heaver clutching a blacking-jar; he says: 'Go it, my covey another black un--d--n me, if Blackey and Coaley can't do it the devil's in 'em.' The Mayor smiles, despite a cascade of blacking. Behind him and on the extreme left is a barrister in wig and gown, probably the Recorder (Newman Knowlys). He says: 'Mind what your at my hearty--keep up your favorite guard or he'll beat you as black as his own factory.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to: 25 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Name):
Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835, Thompson, William, 1793-1854, and Knowlys, Newman, 1758-1836
Subject (Topic):
Containers, Throwing, Robes, Ceremonial maces, and Petitions
An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.318., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text beneath title: "Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Name):
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Street musicians, Harps, Older people, Poor persons, Women, and Doors & doorways
"Lyndhurst stands beside a dressing-table (left), in shirt-sleeves, wearing his Chancellor's wig. He puts one hand into the arm-hole of a coat which a footman in livery holds out, saying, 'Your Lordship's Coat is become very threadbare for you know you turned it only last year--& it has been turned before that: so I much doubt if it will bear turning any more-- Can't you afford to buy a new one now her Ladyship earns her own Expenses?-- Doodle pays all her bills and gives her every thing she can wish for.' Lyndhurst: 'Alas! she'll get no more out of Doodle! he has quite kicked her off--She is just now gone to Cumberland to try after a service there which perhaps may enable me to keep still sitting on Wool, if I can but turn this Coat once more & look decent.' On a settee (right) are the mace, Purse of the Great Seal, and the Chancellor's gown."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Publisher:
Pub. March 24, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Lyndhurst, Sarah Garay, Lady, 1795-1834., and Dudley, John William Ward, Earl of, 1781-1833.
Subject (Topic):
Dressing tables, Mirrors, Servants, Wigs, Coats, Ceremonial maces, and Robes
"Peel, as a dustman, stands with legs apart, smoking a pipe and looking to the left. In his right hand is his hand-bell, marked with the Royal Arms, in the left broom and shovel. He is handsome and stalwart, the dress is becoming. Above: 'I dont, vunder I looks black I has all the dirty work in the Parish to do.'"--British Museum online catalogeue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image., and Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath.
Publisher:
Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures - none are original without T. McLeans name
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Garbage collecting and People associated with manual labor
