- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 June 1827]
- Call Number:
- 827.06.27.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pushed by Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, George IV, more corpulent than in other prints, walks in an ornate circular stand or support on castors (as used for toddling children, cf. British Museum satires no. 7497) towards Virginia Water (right), his fishing-rod against his shoulder. He wears a hat with a wide curving brim inscribed á la Townsend [cf. British Museum satires no. 10293], double-breasted tail-coat, breeches, and pumps; his right arm rests on the ring of the stand, in his hand is a small book: Old Izack [Walton]. From the stand dangles an ornate reticule: Fish Bag; the base is decorated with two fat squatting mandarins. Lady Conyngham looks over her right shoulder at the King, puffing from her effort, but singing Rule Britannia; the crossbar at which she tugs is a sceptre. She wears an enormous ribbon-trimmed bonnet and décolletée dress; the hook from the King's line has caught in her dress which strains across her vast posterior as she leans forward. Knighton wears a court-suit with bag-wig and sword. He pushes with both hands with great concentration, singing, Send him Victorious. In his coat-pocket are a clyster-pipe and a paper: Petition of the Unborn Babes. A signpost terminating in a realistic hand points To Virginia Water. There is a background of trees and water."--British Museum online catalogue and A later impression [i.e. state] of British Museum Satires No. 15413 ... A scroll has been added beside Knighton's coat-tails inscribed with his 'places of profit': Clerk of Stannaries Recr Genl Duchy of Cornwall, Privy Purse &c &c &c. See Diary of H. Hobhouse, loc. cit. A border has been added."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 27th, 1827, by S.W. Fores, Pciadilly [sic]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
- Subject (Topic):
- Bonnets, Fishing & hunting gear, Mistresses, Obesity, Physicians, British, Pulling, Scepters, Medical equipment & supplies, and Traffic signs & signals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A fishing party what great enjoyments rise 'from trivial things'". [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 November 1818]
- Call Number:
- 818.11.18.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Louis XVIII, grotesquely obese (left), and the Tsar kiss, their lips touching. Louis, whose head is much the larger, grasps the back of Alexander's head; the Tsar bends from the waist to reach beyond the King's paunch. Louis, with the gouty legs and old-fashioned gold-embroidered coat and waistcoat of English caricature, wears the order of the Saint Esprit. The Tsar, in uniform, has the high pinched waist and bulging breast of the dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) with enormous cavalry boots to the thigh, huge epaulets, and a sash, but no sword. He says: "My Dear Legitimate Brother (tho I believe I call Boney the same) I am happy to serve you tho your cursed Country Men almost destroyed my country--" Louis answers: "Ma Chere [sic] Ami, I am so rejoiced at your Brotherly Kindness in putting off our payment & takeing off your Troops that I could Devour you." The embrace is watched by two Frenchmen on the left, and on the right by the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria, and a young man (? Napoleon's son). Frederick William wears dandified uniform like that of the Tsar but with long trousers; he supports a large sword hanging from a belt, and holds a huge cocked hat; he watches the embrace with distaste, saying, "I am obliged to follow the Leaders at Present." Francis I says: "I must agree for the moment but I have a Grandson." One Frenchman wears uniform with top-boots; he says: "De Legitimate francais be too much for John Bull de manoeuvre by Gar ve want de Time & we show dem vat ve intend." His companion, an elderly man wearing a court suit with a powdered wig (Richelieu attended the Conference on behalf of France) says delightedly: "Ah-ha he do him vid Compliments & den we do them out of the Money." Behind them is a row of melancholy knock-kneed Grenadiers."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Political-dandies
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Nov. 18, 1818, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilli [sic] & 114 Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, and Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de, 1766-1822
- Subject (Topic):
- Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, Heads of state, Kings, Summit meetings, Kissing, Obesity, and Dandies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A kiss at the congress a legitimate embrace at Aix la Chapelle between Alexander the Great and Louis the Large, & others of the dramatis persona. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 March 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.03.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George IV drives Lady Conyngham in a four-wheeled pony-chaise. He is chubbily obese, in loose trousers and braided jacket, wearing a cap poised on his naturalistic curls (cf. British Museum Satires no. 14637). He turns to the enormously corpulent lady. Both overweight the little chaise, and the very small ponies strain desperately. Behind and on the extreme left is the head of the horse ridden by an attendant. They have just passed a gate with a small octagonal lodge. The drive is bordered by a paling; in the background are stags."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ponies posed
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 28, 1824, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic], London
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches, Couples, Deer, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A short ride in the Long Walk, or, The ponies posed!! [graphic].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 September 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.09.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Viewed from the back. Lady Conyngham, immensely fat, and her size increased by inflated sleeves and skirt. The King advances from the right and takes her right hand. The back of her head is covered by a large '5s.' piece, showing the reverse or "tail", with St. George and the 'Honi Soit' ... inscription. The King's face is covered with a sovereign, showing the obverse, with his own head, the profile towards the lady, and 'Georgius IV'... inscription. She wears an enormous high-crowned hat trimmed with loops of ribbon, the brim extending beyond her vast shoulders. He wears a top-hat and braided coat with fur collar, the ribbon of the Garter, and the Golden Fleece, with knee-breeches. Above the design: 'If thou be a King, where is thy Crown! My Crown is in My heart, not on my head!' Shakspeare (from 3 Henry VI, III. i). At the bottom edge of the image: A- is 2s/6d to herr husband". See British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Crown piece and a sovereign
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher W. Heaths ..., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Sep. 30, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
- Subject (Name):
- Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Head and tail, or, A crown piece and a sovereign [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.05.00.08+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 April 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.04.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Lady Conyngham stands directed to the left, feet apart, dressed as in British Museum satires no. 15720; she amusingly combines the ultra-feminine with masculine attributes and stance. She is immensely fat and wide with small cherubic features and curls; under her left arm is a cocked blunderbuss. She wears a wide-brimmed hat, a neckcloth fastened with a jewelled crown, a coach-guard's greatcoat, wide open over her tight-waisted dress. A pouch hangs from her shoulder and two coach-horns from her left arm. Above her head: 'I says to our Governor says I--keep your eye on them ere Leaders George'; i.e. on Lyndhurst and Scarlett, see British Museum satires nos. 15720, 15850. Cf. British Museum satires no. 15716."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Publisher's advertisement below imprint: Caricatuer [sic] daily pub.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 28, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863., and Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844.
- Subject (Topic):
- Guards, Firearms, Mistresses, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The guard wot looks arter the sovereign [graphic]