Practice [graphic]

Description

Title: Practice [graphic]
Creator: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
Contributor: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1827]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An enthusiastic young man practising fencing at a target on a door, accidentally having pierced the door and struck a servant behind it, whose tea tray falls to the floor; another young man playing a flute at a table looks over in surprise; a fencing book lying on the floor, sporting prints or other pictures on the wall behind, including two of a black and a white boxer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.312.
One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath, some of which have William Cole's July 1827 imprint in lower left. This is perhaps a later state with imprint burnished from plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 26 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1827
Etchings England London 1827
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fencing
Daggers & swords
Servants
Accidents
Subjects: Fencing
Daggers & swords
Servants
Accidents
England > 1827
England > London > 1827

Access: Public
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