An Irish schoolmaster-priest, sits in a chair taking a pinch of snuff from an open snuff box as he catechizes a dwarfish Irish peasant, ragged and barelegged, who answers with a sly grin: 'O'C -- for O'Connell thats right--now Pat what does MP stand for eh?' Answer: 'Mealy Potato'. On the table to the right is a crucifix used to prop open a book. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Irish MPs
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication inferred from references to Daniel O'Connell and Catholic emancipation., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publishing., and For a brief description of this print, see entry for no. 15684 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, page 102.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Crucifixes, Ethnic stereotypes, Peasants, Priests, Snuff, and Teachers
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 1829.
Title from text above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... sole pub. of P. Prys caricatues [sic]., Text above imprint: None are orilinal [sic] without McLeans name., Text below image: The architect. Glory consists in the designment and idea of the work; his ambition should be to make the form triumph over the matter., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Buckingham Palace -- Male costume: Apron -- Trowels -- Architects -- Walking-sticks., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 91.
"An archaic iron-studded door, with posts and lintel of solid but ancient oak, represents the door of the 'COMMONS' [inscription on lintel]. Above: '"They of Rome are enter'd in our Counsels Sh.' ['Coriolanus', I. ii]. An old-clothes' man stands at the door in profile to the left gazing up at the inscription; he raises the knocker, a ring in the mouth of an angry lion's head. He is bearded, with an ultra-Jewish profile, and has three hats piled on his own, the topmost being a flaunting feminine erection. He wears a ragged and patched gaberdine, old-fashioned buckled shoes, and carries across his shoulder a large bag, from a hole in which projects a pig's foot (a pig in his poke). On his back is an open box of trinkets, containing watches. Close behind him stands a turbaned Turk, watching him with eager anxiety. The Jew: 'Come I sha--Open the door vill ye--I vants to come in--and heres a shentlemans a friend of mines--vants to come in too--dont be afeard--I dont vant a sheat for nothing--I can pay for it So help me Got.' Three men (safely inside) look down at the applicants from a small open window beside the door (right): a dissenter, holding his hat, and characterized by lank hair and plebeian features (resembling Liston as Maw-Worm, cf. British Museum Satires No. 16943); a Jesuit wearing a biretta, and putting a thumb to his nose, and a fat elderly monk; the last two frown. The left door-post (somewhat cracked) is inscribed: 'OAK Suppose to be sound Put up 1688 only latly discovered to be full of Skakes[?peare].'"--British Museum online catalogue and "Catholic Emancipation, following the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (see British Museum satires no. 15530), raised hopes of Jewish emancipation, see British Museum satires no. 15770, &c. For the (baptized) Jew as seat-purchaser cf. Sir M. M. Lopes (to whom an allusion is probably intended, see British Museum satires no. 15683); for Jews and pigs cf. British Museum satires no. 12146, &c; for "1688" see British Museum satires no. 15707, &c. The design resembles and may be based on British Museum satires bo. 8981 (1797) by Gillray."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... political & other caricatuers daily pub., Publisher's announcement at top of sheet: All Paul Prys works have T. McLeans name attach'd as the publisher, those without are pirated copies [image of a man with an umbrella]., and Slight loss of sheet on right and lower edges.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of religion, Catholic emancipation, Jews, Emancipation, Jesuits, Turks, Doors & doorways, Ethnic stereotypes, Knocking, and Monks
King George IV and the Marchioness of Conyngham grieve over the body of a dead giraffe, which had been sent to them by Mehmet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. There is a black mourning border around the image. Left, two Nubians lament. Right, the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon plays a dirge on the bagpipes (the King called him "Old Bags" because of the purse containing the Privy Seal carried by the Lord Chancellor), while next to him are a pillbox and a prescription signed "Abe[rne]thy", representing unsuccessful medicine for the giraffe
Description:
Title from text below image., Two lines of text beneath title: Suppose and suppose the giraffe it should die, Old Bags he should play over him, we'd sit down and cry., and Matted to: 32.5 x 41.6 cm.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Abernethy, John, 1764-1831., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Giraffe, Pets, Death, Bagpipes, Medicines, Bagpipe, Medicine, Giraffes, and Grief
The Duke of Wellington gallops across the cobbled yard of the Palace of Westminster, away from an angry mob some of whom have been knocked down by his horse. The crowd shouting anti-Catholic slogans includes two dustmen
Alternative Title:
Scene in palace yard
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title from text above image: A scene in palace yard., and The figure with hat and cane is a device of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.
Publisher:
Pub March 1829 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Anti-Catholicism, Demonstrations, Crowds, and Horses
Satire with a Charity schoolboy holding a print of a woman "Sontag" with the motto written below "My motto. Charity covers a multitude of sins."; above his head the query "Have you ever seen my piece'.
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image., Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath., and Not in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures - none are original withoutT. McLean name
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 11, p. 239-240.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1829?]
Call Number:
829.00.00.18+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint mostly burnished from plate. Formerly published by M. Clark?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
