"Fashionably dressed men and women, in acute discomfort, hasten from right to left. A lady in the foreground (right) taking the arm of a dandy resembles Mrs. Robertson, see British Museum Satires No. 14557. There is a background of bushes and trees. The head of a black footman, wearing a cocked hat, pops up from behind a bush. On the extreme right is part of the Pump Room, with central cupola and pillared portico."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tis necessary to quicken your motions
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: The Royal Well, Cheltenham., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Cheltenham (England)
Subject (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, Health resorts, Dandies, British, and Servants
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Women -- Hats -- Fashion., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1816.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly and 312 Oxford St.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatur [sic] are daily pub., Text following title: Getting into an apparently empty bed, you find to your surprise you are smothering some unfortunate traveller ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Text following imprint: where political & other caricatures are daily pub., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text in upper right corner: to be continued., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
"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, Marquess, 1766-1832, and Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1823 by A.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., State with complete imprint. Cf. No. 14370 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Watermark: J. Green 1819.