Two men sit at a table, drinking and smoking. The man on the left says to his companion, "Why Captain your nose and chin look as if they were going to fight they are in such a milling attitude." The man on the right with a large pock covered nose and large protuding chin responds, "Very likely my friend for a great many angry words have passed between them." On the wall behind them are two bookshelves, one of which contains a book entitled "Life in London" and "Tom and Jerry", as well as two prints, one showing two boxers fists raised as if in a bout and another military print
Description:
Title from ms. caption on mount., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 20 x 27 cm., and Ms. caption on mount: Preparing for battle.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.56+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"See BM Satires No. 15972, with the same imprint. Nine vignettes, the largest in the centre, signed 'H Heath Delt et Sculpt': two inane cockney sportsmen, one seated on a stile, the other, aiming at a bird (? crow) hits the posterior of a man on a ladder against a rick. Below: 'Gad I thought I hit him!' A popular theme, cf. BM Satires No. 9596, &c. Among the others is an ex-dandy in a derelict room, sitting over the fire, while his one shirt dries on a line: 'Who would have thought I should ever come to this?' Cf. BM Satires No. 13060, &c"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below first image on upper left. Series title centered above image. and Nine designs on one plate, each with lines of dialogue etched below.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gan's, Southampton St[r]eet, Strand
Title from caption below image., Unknown etcher only identified by use of a device: A slanted anchor., 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., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With: I wish you may get it!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Umbrellas -- Baskets.
Title from text above and below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text below image following title: Be quiet & go a-angling-- Walton's Angler, part 1., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image; letter "i" in "waist" scored through and a small letter "e" etched at end of word., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily publishing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. March 2d [?] 1829 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
"A mail-coach inscribed 'Sovereig, Windsor and London', with high-stepping horses, is driven, left to right, by Wellington, who wears fashionable coaching dress with multiple-caped coat and broad-brimmed hat. He has just passed a rival coach, 'the Humbug & Co London Windsor', which has overturned, after colliding with a roadside post inscribed 'Emancipation'. An alarmed face looks out of the window; the traces have broken, the front wheels are off; the driver, Eldon, has fallen on his back on to the prostrate wheelers. The Duke of Cumberland falls head first from the frail dickey; another man (? Winchilsea) falls from the roof, which is stacked high with bulky petitions, one inscribed 'Old Womans Petition']; a paper also falls to the ground inscribed 'Bigotry, Ignorance, Intolerance, Loaves, Fishes, Pensions, Places'. Behind Wellington, on "The Sovereign", sit four men: Brougham, in barrister's wig and holding a brief-bag, a bishop, Burdett, a judge (probably Lyndhurst). The guard is Peel, who stands up, horn in hand, to say to the Duke: 'I say governor we've done em up at last, they will never recover themselves any more.' Wellington, looking over his shoulder, answers: 'No No, they are quite done up that post has smash'd them.' The inside passengers are George IV and Lady Conyngham; he leans out to watch the catastrophe, saying with a smile, 'Floored by George.' She says: 'Aye Aye George we've gotten a Coachman now vot is up to a thing or two, and knows vot is vot.' Brougham: 'Why the concern has been in a bad way some time they say that it is so rotten that all the Rats abandoned it.' The bishop: 'Its lucky they had few passengers.' Burdett: 'No wonder they upset they had too much rubbish on the roof'. The coach flies a flag inscribed 'True Patriotism Honor Truth Liberality'; it is decorated with the Royal Arms: shamrock and roses. There is a background of trees dominated on the right by Windsor Castle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 210.
Publisher:
Published by J. Field, 65 Quadrant, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Winchilsea, George William Finch-Hatton, Earl of, 1791-1858, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
"Satire: four devils sitting, three looking appalled by the story told by the fourth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Working infernally on the feelings
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
