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.
"George IV, seated in an armchair, plays a 'cello. Bloomfield stands behind, playing a flute; in his pocket is a paper: 'Farmer's Boy' [for this identification cf. (e.g.) that of Orger in No. 11940]. Lady Conyngham stands beside the King, saying blandly: "Play Here we go Up Up Up." On the right is a dancing bear, facing a stout jovial man (identified, A. de R. xviii. 4 as Sir L. Neagle, i.e. Sir E. Nagle, appointed Groom of the Bedchamber on George IV's accession). No one notices John Bull (wearing top-hat and top-boots) who enters, shouting: "Rome's on fire, Haste Haste Help Help the People 's Roused, Perjurys allowed Conspirators are suffered to Escape, the Directors are impeached-- the World's in Arms." Behind the King hangs a large placard: Estimate of Expenses at the Chinese Temple One Million--Building Repairing & Furnishing Mark Anthonys State Barges Building two New ones . . . £150,000 Cottage seat Como [Countess Cowper (25 Sept. 1820): 'They say the story is really true of blundering Sir E. Nagel saying in the boat on the Lake near the New Cottage, "We have also got our little Lake of Como"--the King and Ly C present.' Airlie, 'Lady Palmerston', 1922, i. 67; 'The King laughed very much...' 'Journal of H. E. Fox', 1923, p. 38; cf. No. 13857] formerly called V-g-o [sic] Water . . . 40,000 New Cottage at O-P Q . . . 20,000. Presents to Cleopatra. Horse 150 Diamond Necklace . . . 30,000. Pearl Ditto . . . to Cleo's Daughter 15000. Sinecure to Cleo's Boy Pr Anm 3000.' Above Lady Conyngham's head is a painting of a nude woman in bed; below this is an unframed print, a bust portrait of 'Caroline' with the head torn off."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: 1820 -- Bloomfield, Benjamin, 1st baron Bloomfield, 1768-1846 -- Nagle, Sir Edmund, 1757-1830., Watermark: J. Whatman 1820., and Manuscript "265" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 11th, 1820 by S.W. Fores 41 Picadilli
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, consort of George IV, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Musical instruments
Title from caption below image., A small triangle is etched above printmaker's signature in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: West Indies., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
"The man walks (right to left) on a mountainous landscape carrying a musket, and with knapsack, sword, and sheathed bayonet. In the front of his cap is a red cross on a white ground (like that of the modern Red Cross), a similar but smaller cross is on his neat military tunic, which is blue with red facings. He wears trousers or pantaloons and buckled shoes. In a distant valley is a burning town or village."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Similar in design to prints in the series: Sketches of character,, and Watermark: Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. May 8, 1823 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond Street
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 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other caricatuers are daily pub
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
Title from caption below image., Indecipherable text following artist's signature., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of Mr. Heaths etchings., Text below title: "Our modern ladies heads are fill'd with bows., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Reference to print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, p. 71., and Watermark: 1827[?].
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:
Publishd. Feby. 10th, 1823 by A.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly