Grosvenor Prints

[George IV & Wellington] The Two Happiest Men Alive. A Friend in need is a Friend indeed. vide John Bull.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr Del.
Pub by McLean 26 Haymarket London. Sep 30 1827.
Etching with fine hand colour. Framed, sight size 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
George IV, with a gouty leg and a crutch under his left arm, is supported by the Duke of Wellington. The king plainly dressed but with the Garter ribbon and star, has a much swathed gouty leg supported in a sling from the neck. Earlier in the year Wellington had agreed to become commander-in-chief of the forces, pleasing the king
BM Satires: 15429.
[Ref: 60632] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV & Wellington] A Political Reflection.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.] Esq.
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Creased, framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
A scene in a nursery in which the 'Great Babe' George IV lies asleep in a cradle watched over by his mistress Lady Conyngham. On the right Wellington lowers the crown on to his head as he admires himself in the mirror. On the floor is a model of Buckingham Palace as reconstructed by Nash and a toy giraffe. Children's toys interest. A satire of Lady Conyngham's use of her influence over George to support Wellington.
BM Satire 15521.
[Ref: 61172] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] The Slap Up Swell wot Drives Whenever He Pleases.
[after William Heath.]
[n.d., c.1829.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 355 x 230mm (14 x 9"), watermarked 'Allee 1824'. Mounted on album sheet.
A hand-drawn caricature of George IV, a copy of the caricature by Heath published 1829. 'Slap up' dates, as northern slang, from c.1823 (BM Satires via Partridge's 'Slang Dictionary').
See BM Satires 15732 for the original.
[Ref: 58353] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] A Fishing Party, What great enjoyments rise from trivial things.
[Drawn and engraved by William Heath.]
Pub. June 27th 1827 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on card very slight glue stains in three corners, old ink identification underneath.
A caricature of a very fat George IV in a walking frame being taken to fish on Virginia Water, pushed by Sir William Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, his mistress.
BM Satires 15413a.
[Ref: 61003] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] The Virginia Fishing Smack!!!
[William Heath.]
Pub June 26 1827 by S. W. Fores Piccadilly.
Etching. Sheet size: 245 x 340mm (9½ x 13¼"). Trimmed inside plate. Small tear in upper edge. Sheet slightly grubby. Tear inside right edge, stained.
George IV, dressed as a fisherman, sits in a flat bottomed boat, 'The Piscator of Virginia', bobbing for eels, his left arm round Lady Conyngham, to whom he gives a kiss. In his right hand is a 'bob', a short stout rod, the line terminating in a bunch of threads baited with worms which are under water. The words of a song float from their occupied lips. In the bows is a mast and sail below which are a big glass jar containing worms, and an open book inscribed, 'Broad Grins. Like some Fat Gentleman who Bobs for Eels'.
BM Satires 15410.
[Ref: 36739] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

D_n it Sir_I wish you would blow your Nose____ Blow it your self-it is as near you-as it is to me-
William Heath.
Pub May 12-1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole Published of W Heath Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 373 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Overall toning.
A satire of physically opposite characters sitting across from each other in a small room. The gentleman on the left is long and lean, and possesses a beautifully proportioned face. His antithesis, the person on the right, is short and fat, and sports a huge and grotesque nose. The thin man is doing his best to read his newspaper, but the other man's bulbous nose hovering directly over the newspaper, distracts him.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 30487] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of a Guerilla Chief.
WH [William Heath] Del et Sculp.
Pub May 8 1823 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St & 74 New Bond St.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to printed border.
Caricature of a Spanish guerrilla, dressed like a peasant mountaineer rather than of a soldier, standing on a ledge, cocking his musket as he sees regular troops below. In 1820 Spain, a revolt led to a Republican government, but by 1823 the country had descended into civil war. This figure is presumably a Republican, fighting against the Monarchist 'Army of the Faith' (subject of a companion print, BM 14522). In the end order was restored when the European powers agreed that Louis XVIII could lead a French Army of 100,000 into Spain.
BM Satires: 14523.
[Ref: 60587] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Quadrille - Evening Fashions - Dedicated to the Heads of the Nation. La Poule.
[Monogram of Paul Pry.][William Heath.]
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket 1827.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: J.Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Sheet size: 245 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed and mounted in album sheet.
Two couples with exaggerated, absurd hairstyles and fashionable dress, dancing. Drawn and etched by satirical printmaker, William Heath (1794 - 1840).
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 46644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

That sentinel's as drunk as a beast- its very shameful when I set my Troop such a good example- what the devil is he singing? some love nonsense I dare say
W Heath
Pub May 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark' good colour. Half the print.
A drunken sentinel leaning against a post, his horse regarding him with embarrassment. By William Heath (1794/5-1840) ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
[Ref: 39543] £90.00

Do You Please to have your Bed Warm'd Sir? Sketches of Character No.3.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Very fine etching with hand colour. Sheet 365 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, to printed border on two sides.
A pretty chambermaid holds a candle and a copper bedpan, smiling at the viewer.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 59482] £320.00

Very cold outside eh? Why I'm a perfect icicle don't I look the picture of misery... Sketches of Character _ the outside passenger No 6.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, aka William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T Mclean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Publishing [n.d., c.1829].
Coloured etching. Sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate. Few marks.
A caricature of a drenched man who could not ride inside the coach.
See Ref: 59485
[Ref: 59484] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Uncomfortablest, I Vos Hever Hin Six Hinsides vy there arn't a nuf room for four of us [...] Sketches of Character _ the inside passenger No 7.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, aka William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T Mclean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub [n.d., c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, taped tear.
A fat passenger addresses the viewer about how bad it was inside a coach, a satirical contrast to 'the outside passenger No 6'.
See Ref: 59484
[Ref: 59485] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Life Of A Soldier, Plate 13.]
[William Heath.]
London Pub by W. Sams 1823.
Hand coloured etching. Platemark: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 9"). Some light staining in margins.
An exterior scene of a military camp, with a number of soldiers huddling around a smoking fire, with others gathering fire wood on the right, and in the distance to the left. Plate 13 from William Heath's 'The Life Of A Soldier; A Narrative And Descriptive Poem', published in 1823 by William Sams.
[Ref: 36188] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[The Life Of A Soldier, Plate 18.]
[William Heath.]
London Pub by W. Sams 1823.
Hand coloured etching. Platemark: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 9").
A battle scene in which a commander leads his troops on horseback. One soldier in the foreground has been thrown from his horse and lies on the ground, looking towards the battle. Plate 18 from William Heath's 'The Life Of A Soldier; A Narrative And Descriptive Poem', published in 1823 by William Sams.
[Ref: 36189] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Stratagem better than Force.
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq, del. [William Heath]
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other Caricatuers are daily Published. [n.d., watermarked 1827.
Coloured etching with fine colour. 250 x 360mm (10 x 14"). False margins added.
An old woman and two chimney sweeps try unsuccessfully to move an ass, whilst on the right a costermonger gallops away on a donkey, using a bunch of carrots tied to a stick for encouragement. In the distance can be seen St. Paul's cathedral.
BM Satires 15959.
[Ref: 14677] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Hope Told a Flattering Tale.
[Paul Pry monogram of William Heath] Del. et sculpt.
Pub by Tho. Mclean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1827].
Fine coloured etching with hand colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 16¼"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1827'. Trimmed within plate.
A grotesque dandy singing, sheet music in his left hand, accompanied on the guitar by a lady with elaborate bonnet.

[Ref: 59474] £360.00

[Wellington & William Huskisson] A Naughty Boy Turn'd out of School.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] he seems let them know who is master of th House
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c. May 1828].
Coloured etching. Framed. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
Satire on the departure from Wellington's cabinet of William Huskisson, represented here as a schoolboy in a fool's cap kneeling before a closed door placarded 'Wellington House Academy'. Huskisson, who had entertained hopes of becoming prime minister before the position was offered to Wellington, voted against the government over the East Retford Bill and subsequently offered to resign 'as a matter of form, not substance' (DNB). Wellington, however, took him at his word and seized the opportunity to rid himself of an uncomfortable colleague. As a result Huskisson's friends Dudley, Palmerston and Grant, along with the Irish Secretary Lamb all resigned (their names are written on a slate next to Huskisson in the print), a situation described by the Duke as a 'mutiny'.
BM Satires: 15532.
[Ref: 61195] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Income Tax] Hokie Pokie Wankie Fum - The King of the Cannibal Islands.
W. Heath.
Pub July 22 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Etching. 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14½").
John Bull on a spit, being roasted on a spit by government ministers, black-bodied but white-faced, clad in loin cloths. Bull is held in place by two skewers, marked 'Free Trade' and 'Corn Bill, and drips 'Tax' into a bowl lined with bread inscribed 'Sop' and 'Place', 'Pension' or 'Sinecure'. Peel and Wellington baste Bull with ladles, watched by Lyndhurst, Sugden, Scarlett and Eldon. Just arrived, William IV is astonished at the sight and says: 'I must put a stop to this'. It is a satire on the victimisation of the British public by the 'Tax Eaters' of the government. William IV had only been on the throne a month and was much more popular than his predecessor. Pacific interest.
BM Satires 16175.
[Ref: 62471] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Sortie from Bayonne.
[After William Heath.]
[n.d., c1815.]
Etching with letterpress. Total 360 x 510mm, 14 x 20". Watermarked 1811. Tear through letterpress, edges browned and chipped.
A key plate and description of the battle, fought on the 14th June, 1814. The full plate was aquatinted by Thomas Sutherland for Jenkins' Martial Achievements'.
From the Reference Library of the Parker Gallery.
[Ref: 22859] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Making a Lancer. Suppose any one could see me now.
[Paul Pry - William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 262 [...] [n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9") Trimmed to printed border, losing Pry monogram, title pasted underneath, on album paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1829'.
A fashion satire: a woman with a fake moustache is helped to dress in lancer uniform by two conventionally-dressed women. Two officers watch through a window. On the wall is a map of the Isle of Man. No.3 of 'William Heath's Cavalry Caricatures'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 51927] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Leopold of Saxe-Gotha] Leo Sacks - One of the Charity Crab's . I was naked and ye clothed me I was hungry and ye took me in.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.] Esq.r. Del.
Pub June 12 1826 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of P. Pry Caricaturs - none are original without T. McLeans name.
Coloured etching. Sheet 335 x 235mm (13¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to printed border.
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Gotha (1790-1865), depicted as a charity boy because of his impecunity on his marriage to Princess Charlotte in 1816. Despite her death in 1817 he was still paid a pension by the Crown, ending when he became King of the Belgians in 1831.
BM 15803.
[Ref: 54305] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Eldred fights a duel with pistols.]
[after William Heath.]
London Pub by W. Sams, 1823.
Coloured aquatint. 140 x 240mm (5½ x 9½"), with very large margins. Small area of foxing.
A scene from William Heath's 'Life of a Soldier': the hero, Eldred, fights a duel (in civvies) at Coombe Wood, near Croydon. Elsewhere in the text Eldred fights in India and the Peninsula War. The author, William Heath (1794-1840), is well known for his satires published under the pseudonym 'Paul Pry'.
Abbey Life 361.
[Ref: 41961] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Can't You Look the Other Way Now.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily publishing, the largest collection of any house in London [n.d., etched c.1829].
Coloured etching. 365 x 280mm (14¼ x 11") very large margins.
An attractive buxom woman on a chaise longue lifts her foot to tie on her shoe, addressing the viewer.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58295] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Looking Glass. Vol.1. No.1. "None see themselves but by reflection - in this glass you may".
Drawn & Etched by William Heath - Author of the Northern Looking Glass - Paul Prys Caricatures - and various humerous works.
Published January 1st 1830 by T.M.cLean 26 Haymarket London - sole publisher of William Heath.s Etchings Communications for this .Work must be post paid and directed to Tho.s M.cLean for the editor of the Looking Glass.
Four page etching, sheet 430 x 485mm (17 x 23") unfolded. Centrefold as published. Pinholes in margins. Some time staining.
29 vignettes, front and back, on one folded sheet: Advertisements; A Certain Cure for Corns, The Leading Article, Patent Instananeous Delights; The Flying Dutchman, Fish Sauce, Police Intelligence; "There is no appe(.a)l, Sale by Auction; Smithfield Market, London Gazette; Declaration of Insolvency/Bankrupt Enlarged, The Rat-iocinator; Or infallible Trap, State of Trade, Beau Street, Good Plain Cooks, The Stocks, St. James's Street- A Card, The Cabinet Show, Currency, Chancery, Fashionable intelligence 1830, Slave trade 1, Slave trade 2, A sketch of that curious little architect sitting on his (egg), New system of heraldry, 1730 Dress of the guards 1830, Gallop-hard- Trials Old Bailey, Change of linen. Sheriffs-officers, The Siamese Youths - Our Own Youths, Church Affairs, (Image of a newsboy selling the looking glass). Of most interest are the two scenes relating to the Slave Trade: the first shows 'Slaves in bondage', with a happy family on a plantation; the second, 'In full enjoyment of Liberty', shows the effects of thoughtless emancipation, with a family left in dire poverty, with Wilberforce's name, suggesting it was his fault.
See Ref 54600 for coloured version of Slave Trade. BM Satires 15991.
[Ref: 59107] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The March of Intellect.
F.A. Esq.r Inv.t. [monogram of Paul Pry/William Heath] Del, et sculpt.
Pub, Jan.y 23, 1828 by G. Humphrey Sy James's Street.
Rare etching with hand colour. Sheet: 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
A fantastic scene on the edge of London, satirising modern technology and the consequences of education for the masses. Among the details are a Channel Bridge, the Thames Tunnel being flooded, a warship held aloft by balloons bombing the enemy fleet, a coal merchant playing chess and a man using a windlass to hoist chairs up a vertical chute from the street. A rare satire: George could only describe a photograph of the example in the collection of the Earl of Harrowby, although the BM has subsequently acquired an example.
BM 15604, with an extensive description.
[Ref: 57478] £680.00 (£816.00 incl.VAT)

A Trip to Margate By Paul Pry Esq.r.
[by William Heath.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½").
A plate with eight vignette satires of the popularity of day-trips to Margate.
[Ref: 55946] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria II of Portugal] The High & Mighty Queen recieving an address from the Most Loyal Subjects in the World.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricature are daily Published. [n.d., c.1828.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), Turkey Mill paper watermarked 1826. Small margins. Cut to platemark at bottom.
Maria II, de jure Queen of Portugal, holding an audience for her Portuguese subjects in exile in London, although more interested in a Punch & July show behind. The Portuguese, led by Don Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Marquis of Palmela, look destitute. Maria, who was nearly 10 years old and tall for age, not the infant depicted here, regained her throne from her uncle Miguel in 1834.
BM Satire 15557.
[Ref: 39714] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria II of Portugal] Majesty & Grace. As his Grace stoop'd to press the Royal hand to his lips - Her Majesty in the most playful and condescending manner lay'd hold of his Nose - with her Royal finger and thumb - His Grace with his usual brevity and decision acknowledged the high honor done him.
[Monogram of Paul Pry - W. Heath.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Caricatures are daily Publishing. [n.d., 1828.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate on right.
The little Queen of Portugal, as a child of two or three, stands on tiptoe to grasp the nose of Wellington, who bows low and supports her raised arm. In her right hand she brandishes a rattle. Over her childish frock is a long train, supported by two grinning negro pages with misshapen legs. A coral and bells hangs at her side, and a long bib or pinafore is decorated with the Portuguese Arms and crown. A very stout lady-in-waiting walks behind them, wearing a ruff and feathered hat; she carries a black doll; behind her and on the extreme left is a Portuguese courtier also holding a toy, a cock on a pair of breeches. The seven-year-old Queen Maria II of Portugal, usurped by her uncle Miguel in 1828, toured European cities to gain support, much to Wellington's embarrassment due to his unwillingness to help. She regained the throne in 1834.
BM Satires 15558.
[Ref: 56734] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hawking Ride unto St Alban's vide Shak. 'A Falc'ner William is, when Harriet hawks; With her of tarsels and of Lures he talks. vide Prior!
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry'] Esq.r Del et Sculp.t.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other Caricatures are daily Publishing. [n.d., c.1827]
Etching with very fine hand colour. Sheet 245 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A satire of the Duke of St Albans with his new duchess, Harriot Mellon, out hawking. The Duke sits on a bucking donkey while his much larger wife rides an impressive white horse, carrying two hawks to the duke's one. Harriot had been an actress who married Thomas Coutts and inherited his fortune before marrying William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans in 1827, who was 23 years her junior. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole; however his monogram (a man holding an umbrella) was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
[Ref: 51580] £320.00

[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Mistake.
[Mongram of Paul Pry] Esq. [William Heath.]
Pub March 10th 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are daily Pub.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Cut to border.
On the pavement outside a pawnshop are a man selling pamphlets, with a sign saying 'No Popery'. Because of the sign's handle the woman mistakes that for 'No Pop' (i.e. no credit).
BM Satires: 15685.
[Ref: 31478] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Morning. Nigth [sic]. Scene in the Island of Jersey. Scene in the Duchy of Lancaster.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published.
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), large margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unusually, the small character of Paul Pry in the left corner points to an address along the top edge of the print: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 55953] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Burning of Moscow, Sept.r 1812.
W. Heath del.t. T.Sutherland aquat.t.
London, Pub. March 1 1815, by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.
Coloured aquatint. 215 x 300mm (8½ x 11¾").
Moscow in flames during Napoleon's occupation of the city.
[Ref: 55801] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Moving Scene on the Road to Slane.
WHeath.
Pub June 29 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet size: 265 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Tears in right margin. Small margins.
Satire on the Conyngham family's exit from Windsor Castle following George IV's death, laden with gifts. The family are heading for 'Slane Castle', their Irish seat, which is depicted as a hovel and is placarded 'Man-Traps—Pigs beware'. The large Lady Conyngham wheels a barrow heaped with kettle (marked 'GR'), pans, and bellows. Behind her walks Lord Conyngham, with a bundle of bedding tied up in a blanket marked 'GR.', on his head and shoulders. In his left hand is a pair of tall tongs, topped by an antlered head. On the right walks a daughter, followed by the son, each with a huge bundle, that of Mount Charles inscribed 'Old Cloathes'. Behind the procession is a ragged Irish peasant woman, derisively holding up two fingers.
BM Satires: 16140.
[Ref: 39603] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Much Ado About Nothing!!!
[Paul Pry monogram, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub 1828 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Very fine etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼") Trimmed to plate.
A tiny woman with oversized hair, hat, sleeves and skirt.
BM: 1985,0119.251.
[Ref: 59478] £390.00

Much Ado About Nothing!!!
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq.r Del.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 355 x 245mm (14 x 9"), with wide margins.
A woman dwarfed by her enormous hat and skirts. 'Paul Pry' was a pseudonym of William Heath (1794-1840).
BM: 1985,0119.251.
[Ref: 54580] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Little Musick!!! What softer sounds are these salute the ear,_As if the center of all sweets met here? Ben Johnson.
[William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Cut within plate, damage to left edge and paper tone.
A comical scene in four monkeys in human dress take part in a concert. Manuscript addition in speech bubbles from three monkeys on the left.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43631] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull & the Archi_tect Wot Build's the Arches_ &c_ &c_ &c_ &c_ (The Architect Glory consists in the designment and Idea of the work; his ambition should be to make the form triumph over the matter.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub June 5 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket Sold Pub. of P Prys caricatures None are original without Mc Lean's Name.
Fine hand-coloured etching. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Satire on the cost of John Nash's reconstruction of Buckingham House (now Palace) with perhaps the only contemporary printed likeness of the architect. Nash stands between the two wings of the house, confronted by John Bull who scrutinises a scroll on which the word 'Commission' is many times repeated. By this time more than double the original estimate had already been spent and an alteration to the wings had cost £50,000 (both issues alluded to in the speech between Nash and John Bull). Nash admitted that he had profited by exchanging his salary for a percentage commission on expenditure (hence the scroll). During 1829 a thousand men were toiling to finish the Palace by the King's birthday (August 12) in 1830, making the publication of this print particularly timely.
BM Satires: 15794.
[Ref: 52761] £420.00

The Looking Glass No. 6. New Way to Pay the National Debt -- Fudge. ''Now you see the case stands thus - we borrow money of you (without any intention of repaying it-) but agree to allow five pr Cent interest not being in a situation to pay five now - we intend to give you three - consequently that will be so much of your Principal paid off - thus we shall go on reducing the Interest untill it comes to Nothing and then you know if we have nothing to pay to you we cannot possibly owe you anything - now you see the thing in quite a new light''.
[by Charles Williams.]
Published June 1st 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London sole publisher of William Heaths etchings Communications for this work must be post paid and directed to McLean for the editor of the Looking Glass.
Fine coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Henry Goulburn (1784-1856) as Chancellor of the Exchequer (under Wellington), bamboozling a citizen. As chancellor, he reduced the rate of interest on part of the national debt. He left office with Wellington in November 1830. Underneath this satire is another, 'Nuisances of London - The Deluge', about the havoc caused by water-wagons cleaning the streets.
BM Satires 16124 (issue of The Looking Glass satirical magazine),
[Ref: 54390] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Review of the New, Grand, Army. Cap.t of Starved Banditty, Ad. Camp,, the Aghast Emperor & his two Friends & Pillars of the State,, Butcher from Elba. Generalissimo.
[William Heath?]
[n.d., c.1815.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾''). Large tear into plate on right edge, creasing and mount burn. Small margins.
A satire of Napoleon's campaign, showing Napoleon as a small figure in the centre, behind him in clouds are the Devil and Death, either side of him are the allegorical figures of a bandit and butcher; above the group is the grotesque Demon of Death. In the background stands the French army.
BM Satire 12548.
[Ref: 50758] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A New Situation!
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub March 20th 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching on watermarked paper, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1828'. Shee size: 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
A scene on a street corner where an eleborately dressed older woman (right), with an oversized hat and frilled dress with large ballooned sleeves, and a dog at her feet, looks down on a younger woman, carrying a wicker basket. The older woman asks 'Bless me Mary_is that you - where do you live now?', to which the younger woman glumly replies, 'If you please mam - I dont live no where now, I'm Married!'. By William Heath (1794/5-1840) ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 32026] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Stuyvesants Army entering New Amsterdam. See Knickerbocker's New York.
From a Drawing by William Heath of London.
Lithograph. Sheet 250 x 715mm (10 x 28¼"). Laid on archival paper.
A satire depicting the Dutch colonists of New York in the 1650s, naming the families underneath, including Van Brummel, Van Kloten, Van Pelt, Van Ness, Van Higginbottom, Van Groll, Gardenier, Van Hoesen, Couenhoven, and Van Kortlandt. From 'A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, Containing Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter' by 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', a pseudonym of Washington Irving.
[Ref: 49144] £360.00

No Genius.
'Paul Pry' Esq. Del et Sc. [William Heath]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily Published. [n.d., c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½''), with large margins
Two street cleaners discuss the performance of a new recruit, throwing in a humorous side-swipe at the politicians at Westminster (the towers of Westminster Abbey visible in background).
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 50752] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

No Genius.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily Publishing. [n.d., c.1828.]
Fine hand coloured etching. 260 x 370mm. (10¼ x 14¾".) Trimmed to plate at top, margins on 3 sides. Brown stain left margin, does not exceed the platemark.
Two street cleaners discuss the performance of a new recruit, throwing in a humorous side-swipe at the politicians at Westminster (the towers of Westminster Abbey visible in background). By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole, that became a tag used for any very inquisitive person) with the emblem of a small man holding a walking stick in a lower corner of his plates. This figure was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), and so from 1828 Heath began to sign his plates with his full name. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 52760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Proprietors Advice.
William Heath.
Pub April 10 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 367 x 254mm (14½ x 10"). Cut to platemark.
Satire on Prince Leopold (subsequently Leopold I of Belgium) at the time he was considering an offer to become king of Greece. Leopold puts his head through a glassless window in the door of his 'Grecian Establish[ment]—Co[burg]', to look intently at a fat Turk holding a long pipe. Next to the door are placards: 'This . Shop!!! will shortly open under entire new Management—Vivant [sic] Rex'; a Union Jack poster (partly covered); the Russian eagle, and a fleur-de-lis, the two last inscribed 'Loan'. One of Leopold's conditions for becoming king of Greece was for a loan guaranteed by the three Powers (hence the posters on the wall here). He obtained his conditions with regard to the loan, but nonetheless turned down the throne of Greece, and became the first king of Belgium the following year.
BM Satires: 16098.
[Ref: 30540] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

On. Guard. Off. Guard. Guarded.
[Paul Pry Monogram.][William Heath.]
Pub by Tho. McLean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"). Trimmed and mounted into album sheet.
Three scenes showing the demise of a soldier, on the left the soldier stands proud and on guard, the centre image shows the soldier drunk and leaning on a lamp post and the final image shows him in prison having been court martialled.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 46642] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Packing Up!!! "Had sly Ulysses at the Sack____Of Troy, brought thee his pedler's back_____Vide Cleaveland_
W. Heath.
Pub July 1st 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Cut to border.
In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham, in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of George IV famous giraffe which had died in 1829. A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor. Following George IV's death the Conynghams left Windsor immediately having been bequeathed the king's plate and jewels.
BM Satires: 16143.
[Ref: 43635] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Peel] Dusty Bob_the Parish Dustman. Parish Characters by Paul Pry Esq.r Pl. 3.d.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr.
Pub June 1st 1829 by S Gans 15 Southampton St Strand (Sole Publisher of P Prys Caricatures=(None are original without S Gans' name
Hand-coloured etching. 362 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), with wide margins. Stain bottom right.
Peel as a rat-catcher and 'Cad' to the Ministry ('Dusty Bob' was a favourite character in the stage version of 'Life in London'). Contemporary copy of the print by William Heath (Paul Pry) lacking 'Pl-3rd' inscription and published by Gans rather than McLean.
BM Satires: 15801 (copy)
[Ref: 30485] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Peel] The Cad to the Man Wot Drives the Sovereign.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.] Esq.r. Del.
Pub April 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), with wide margins. Diagonal crease top right.
Sir Robert Peel as a ratcatcher, standing holding a dome-shaped wire cage, his left hand is on his hip holding an 'orange peel'. He wears a small battered hat, once a topper, a collar and stock, patched greatcoat with sheepskin collar and many pockets; loose boots to the calf. A document marked 'Police' projects from his coat-tail pocket.
BM Satires: 15734.
[Ref: 54303] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Peel Thrown Away or One Mans Meat is Another Mans Poison. the Late Elections.
[Paul Pry] Esqr.
Pub March 7th 1829 by T McLean 16 Haymarket where political & other caricatures are daily Publishing.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 266 x 362mm (10½ x 14¼"). Very large margins.
Satire on the election after Sir Robert Peel resigned his Oxford University seat during Catholic Emancipation (as he had stood on a platform of opposition to Emancipation and had since changed his position). Peel was nominated for re-election but was defeated by Sir R.H. Inglis. Here Inglis is shown as an obese Oxford don in the centre, charming a yokel John Bull and holding a peeled orange inscribed 'Inglis', from which he discards the 'Peel' which is about to fall into a slough inscribed 'Westbury Close Sink of Iniquity / Impurity of Elect—Bribery—Corruption'. In this bog can be seen the head and shoulders of Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, who says 'if you will let me out there's plenty of room for your peel'. Following Peel's defeat by Inglis, the government had to ask Lopes to vacate his pocket borough at Westbury in Peel's favour (Lopes resigned for an undisclosed sum).
BM Satires: 15683.
[Ref: 39172] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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