"The King's giraffe hangs limply from a sling which is suspended from a cross-beam supported on two uprights. George IV and Lady Conyngham push hard at a windlass to hoist up their pet. He has thrown off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeves; tight breeches define spherical posteriors. She looks up sentimentally at the animal, whose forelegs are swathed in stockings, with the feet in large shoes stamped with a crown. Beside it is an open chest of stoppered spirit bottles. A background of trees and grass indicates Windsor Park."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate signed in bottom left corner using William Heath's device [image of Paul Pry]: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where political and other caricature are dialy [sic] pub., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., To the left of the small image of Paul Pry: I supose [sic] we shall have to pay for stuffing him next., and Text below image: Little hope is now entertaind. of the recovery of the giraffe - since the last attack he is unable to rise without the assistance of slings - every attention is paid him but tis fear'd without effect. Morning papers.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Title from caption below image., Title from dialogue in Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew: Tailor "The sleeves curiously cut." Petruchio "Ay, there's the villainy.", Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of P-Prys caricatures, none are original without this publication., Text following title: Vide Skakspeare., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. June 30, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole pubr. of W. Heaths etchings., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 19, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
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., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etching., and Text below title: Still ye have predilection for the serpent.
"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.
Title from text above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures., and Text below image: "The kindly dew drops form [sic] the higher tree, and wets the little plants that nestle underneath. Spencer [sic]. "Our gayness and our gear are all besmirch'd. Shak.
Publisher:
Pub. June 30, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
"A hand printing-press of metal (a Stanhope Press), supported on the stout legs of a man in breeches which seem to belong to a John Bull, puts to flight mere pigmy humans: two flee to the right, one propelled by a kick from a huge buckled shoe; two others have fallen. Two levers or handles serve as arms; one has a hand which grasps a giant pen, the feather entwined with three serpents which spit flame at the departing legs and cocked hat of Wellington, who, kicked into the air, disappears behind the upper right margin of the design. Another pair of legs, with the black stockings and buckled shoes of Eldon, project from the upper left margin; beside them a single leg and a broom indicate the departing Brougham. A second lever supports a print, 'The Man Wot Drives The Sovereign', copied from British Museum satires no. 15731; a flame issues from the press, threatening to scorch or destroy the print. The press is topped by a cap of Liberty inscribed 'Free Press' and encircled with a wreath. A little demon (a printer's devil) rushes towards the press from the left, holding up a big ink-ball."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatu[...]., and This image was possibly published in Paul Pry, a newspaper dedicated to exposing political corruption and religious fraud. William Heath often worked with Thomas McLean and is well known for his caricatures and satirical imagery.
Publisher:
Pub. May 30th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Free press and fair trial, Wit and humor, Pictorial, John Bull (Symbolic character), Arcimboldesque figures, Demons, Kicking, Liberty cap, and Printing presses
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: Spies to see the nakedness of the land are come., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heath etching., Three lines of dialogue above image: Had any sport? Shot a grouse. A gross, I dont see but one., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 18, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...