Grosvenor Prints

Ganging to the Kirk. Sketches of Scotch Character.
[William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d., c.1830.]
Etching with fine hand-colour. Plate: 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
A scene set in Scotland in which two well-dressed women wash their dirty feet in a puddle before going to church. William Heath's monogram of Paul Pry states 'Lord love you this may be seen every Sunday in Glasgow'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43630] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Ganging to the Kirk. Sketches of Scotch Character.
[William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d., c.1830.]
Etching with fine hand-colour, J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827 watermark. Plate: 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"),. Marking in edges. Small margins.
A scene set in Scotland in which two well-dressed women wash their dirty feet in a puddle before going to church. William Heath's monogram of Paul Pry states 'Lord love you this may be seen every Sunday in Glasgow'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 46651] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

It was lucky I got shelter at all. __
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry', a man holding an umbrella.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub.
Hand coloured etching, 375 x 260mm. 14¾ x 10¼". A very fine and scarce impression in good colour.
A (rather dim) traveller and his dog 'shelter' from angry skies, lightning and lashing rain beside a pathetic stump of a tree that has lost most of its branches (to lightning); Stonehenge on the horizon beyond, and a crow or raven on the tree above looking down. Irish interest. 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.
[Ref: 16153] £320.00

The Siamese Youths_after a few years residence in England.
William Heath
Pub Dec 19 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket- sole publisher of W Heath etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed to printed border, repaired damage in bottom right corner.
A scene showing the famous 'Siamese Twins' Eng and Chang Bunker (1811-1874) who travelled the world as a touring exhibit. In 1830 they arrived in England after a successful tour of the USA. One brother is shown making his way through several decanters of wine while the other is shown gorging on meat.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43632] £320.00

A Sketch of Gee's Farm, the Seat of Blinking Bill_
[W. Heath.]
Pub June 9 1830 by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 374 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Cut to platemark left, with large margins elsewhere.
Satire on the elopement of Lord William Pitt Lennox's wife Mary Anne Paton with opera singer Joseph Wood. Lennox ('Blinking Billy') stands holding an empty bird-cage, lamenting 'my singing Bird escaped [Paton was also a singer], no doubt she has flown to the Wood'. The marriage was dissolved in the Scottish courts in 1831, and Paton married Wood that same year.
BM Satires: 16420.
[Ref: 30557] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sketches by Travellers. Plate 1st Tiger-Hunting is a delightful sport whilst you hunt him - but not half so pleasant when he takes it into his head to hunt you!
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq. Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily Published.
Etching. Sheet 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed close to printed border.
Hunters on an elephant panic as a tiger charges them. Etched by William Heath and part of a series which also included scenes in the Scottish Highlands, Germany, Netherlands, China and Arctic.
[Ref: 56593] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sketches of Character - Footman. Pl. 7th. It a Pity You Noting to do, But Look at Me _ Did you Never See a Lady's Gentleman A Fore Eh?
[Monogram of Paul Pry, psuedonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub. by T McLean 26 Haymarket April 1829.
Etching with fine hand colour. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Framed. Laid on album sheet and trimmed inside platemark.
A black footman in ostentatious livery. A racial image.
[Ref: 58011] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope 4th Earl of Harrington & Maria Foote] The Little Jockey Coming In at the Winning Post!!! Jacta est alea - She was a but a Foot yesterday but she is Higher now.
W.Heath.
[n.d., 1831.]
Etching. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Tear in bottom margin taped.
A satire of Regency buck Charles Stanhope (1780-1851), 4th Earl of Harrington, as a horse being ridden by Maria Foote towards a pillar with an earl's coronet. whom he married in 1831. He wears a peculiar hat known as a "Petersham" (he was Viscount Petersham before the death of his father and wasknown as 'Beau Petersham'). Actress Maria Foote (c.1797-1867) married the Earl in April 1831.
BM: 10165
[Ref: 62528] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Trifling Misunderstanding or a Military Tea Party. Effects of a Field Education.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.] Esq.r. Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), J. Whatman watermark 1828, with wide margins. Some paper toning.
When the hostess requested a captain's company for tea she did not expect him to bring the rank and file.
[Ref: 54316] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sketches of Character - the Inside passenger No. 7. The Most Uncomfortablest Coach I Vos Hever Hin Six Hinsides. Vy there arn't a nuf room for four of us_bring us a bottle of mull'd red port vaitor-hand do ye hear get a wheelbarer for this here luggage_vy they looks like drowned rats houtside.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, psuedonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub. by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily published [n.d., c.1829].
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border.
A caricature portrait of a very large passenger of a coach, standing, surrounded by luggage.
[Ref: 56043] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry] One of the Tenth - When I was an Infant gossips would say - when I grew older I'de be a soldier. &c.r. Hyde Park May 27 1829. Sketched at the Review.
[William Heath.]
Pub May 28, 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole Publisher of P. Pry caricatures.
Etching with very fine colour. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1828', with large margins.
Lady Londonderry riding sidesaddle on a galloping horse, in a skirted approximation of the uniform of the 10th Hussars (regiment of her husband, Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry), with false moustache. At the review Lord Wellington fell from his horse but was unhurt.
BM Satire 15930.
[Ref: 55405] £360.00

[Nicholas Vansittart] Old Nic the Covey wot Drives the Bexley Van. My name is Nicholas your honor - they calls me Hocus Pocus for short, but lork I'm no Conjuror - I got Exchequered - but that's nothink to Nobody.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed and mounted in album sheet. Some of the text missing (as in BM copy).
Apparently Heath intends the victim of this caricature to be Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer; however the face does not resemble him.
BM Satires: 15747.
[Ref: 46655] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Vansittart] Old Nic the Covey wot Drives the Bexley Van. My name is Nicholas your honor - they calls me Hocus Pocus for short, but lork I'm no Conjuror - I got Exchequered - but that's nothink to Nobody.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching Charles Smith bookseller's ink stamp in bottom margin. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"). Tear taped, glue stain in edge of plate. Faded.
Apparently Heath intends the victim of this caricature to be Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer; however the face does not resemble him.
BM Satires: 15747.
[Ref: 58355] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Design for a Regency.
William Heath.
Pub July 8 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Framed hand-coloured etching. Frame dimensions 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼). Unexamined outside of frame. Probably trimmed.
Princess Victoria as a child, sitting on Prince Leopold's knee, holding the sceptre, the crown falling over her eyes. The Duchess of Kent looks on from the throne. To the right is Wellington, standing over the royal chair in the Council Chamber, with William IV sitting to the side. Behind are the Grenadier Guards, standing to attention with bayonets fixed. When William IV came to the throne in 1830, Victoria was the next in line to the throne, aged 11, raising the question of who would be regent if William died before Victoria came of age. Heath had previously issued his work under the pseudonym 'Paul Pry' but reverted to his own name because of fakers.
BM Satires: 16162.
[Ref: 60430] £320.00

Vot are you Staring At? Spooney_is there any thing perticler about a Coachman. Sketches of Character No.1.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other Caricatures are daily Pub. The largest assortment of Satirical Print of any House in London.
Etching with fine hand colour. 375 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, small tear on right taped, stains at top.
A large, bow-legged coachman holding a tankard of beer addresses the viewer.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 59481] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Cost of a Waterloo Medal.
[William Heath.]
[Pub Oct 1st 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket Sole publisher of W.H.s Etchings.]
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 220 x 320mm (8¾ x 12½"). Trimmed around title, losing inscriptions, framed over image on three sides, unexamined out of frame.
A French and a British soldier sit at ale-house table. The Frenchman hold out his grand Legion of Honour medal for comparison to what he describes as the 'nasty Waterloo medal - shabby - cost your Nation only two francs'. The Englishman answers with a good-humoured smile, 'That's true - but it - cost yours - A Napoleon!!!'.
BM Satires: 15868, an earlier state with Napoleon spelt 'Napolean'.
[Ref: 61171] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington and the Catholic Relief Bill] Doing Homage. _Thus they in lowliest plight, repentant bow_Mil[ton].
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d. c.1830.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
One of many attacks on Peel and the Duke of Wellington, introducers of Catholic Emancipation. Here they pay homage to the Pope, with Wellington kissing the papal foot.
BM Satires: 15660.
[Ref: 52859] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington & income Tax] Daring & Impudent Robbery!!! Do villany, do, since you process to do't_Like workmen; I'll example you with thieving_Thieves for their robbery have authority_Shakespeare.
William Heath.
Pub. Oct. 6th. 1829 by TMcLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of WH's etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 255 x 355mm (10 x 14''). Trimmed within plate.
A satire on income tax. Wellington (in army uniform) takes a bag of money from John Bull's pocket while Robert Peel (dressed as one of his new policeman) takes his pocket watch.
BM Satire 15875.
[Ref: 50728] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] A Vision -- Past. Present.
William Heath.
Pub Feb 9th 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W Heaths Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins.
Wellington's military success ('past') is contasted with his political instability ('present'). On the left he stands on a cloud immediately above Napoleon's tomb, with Fame blowing her trumpet and holding a wreath over his head. On the right he kneels precariously on the summit of a globe which is crushing the British people, some of whom try desperately to hold it up. It is covered, like a map, with islands or continents inscribed respectively 'Free Trade', 'National Debt', 'Currency', 'Taxes'. Dividing the two scenes, and in the upper part of the design, is a king enthroned, whose fleur-de-lis head identifies him as Charles X. Speech bubble coming from the fleur-de-lis reads 'all for me', the implication being that Napoleon's defeat served only to restore the Bourbons. This print was published only months before Charles was deposed in the July Revolution.
BM Satires: 16030.
[Ref: 39609] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Arther & his man Bob giving Iohn Bull a Bolus). _ Quacks from Church St _
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq.r.
Pub April 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket
Coloured etching, sheet 245 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed inside platemark; fold through centre; good colouring.
John, larger in scale than his tormentors, lies on the ground supported by Peel, who kneels behind him, while Wellington, leaning forward on tiptoe, uses a thick rod with a cross-bar to ram down his mouth a large paper: 'Catholic Emancipation'. John, bottle-nosed and brandy-faced, wears an open waistcoat and shirt, with gaiters drawn above the knee. Peel, wearing over sleeves and apron, holds the patient's jaws with grim determination. Wellington, dressed like an old-fashioned doctor except for cavalry boots, rests his whole weight on the cross-bar of his rammer. Behind Peel on the extreme left and partly cut off by the margin is a large pestle and mortar inscribed 'Dose for 40s Free[holders]'.
BM Satires: 15714.
[Ref: 43834] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] John Bull asking a few questions of Orator Mum - Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two) Shakespeare.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Published the largest collection in England. [n.d. c.February 1829.]
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 369mm (10¼ x 14½").
Satire probably published between the King's Speech on 5 Feb, and the introduction of the Catholic Relief Bill on 5 March. Wellington, on the right, refuses to answer John Bull's questions about the Catholics and the 'little Queen' (Mary II of Portugal). He had concealed his intention to bring in Emancipation till a day or two before the opening of Parliament, thus aggravating Tory resentment. Furthermore, when the question of British relations with Portugal was raised in the Lords and in the Commons, a request for papers was refused, reinforcing allegations that the Government was favouring the usurpation of Don Miguel under cover of the preservation of neutrality.
BM Satires: 15659.
[Ref: 30483] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Caleb Quotem - the parish factotum. He is all - he is evry thing - the parish could not go on without him - He has more trades that hairs in his wig. Parish Characters in Ten Plates by Paul Pry Esq.r. _ Pl. 11.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publisher of P.Prys Caricature's - none are original without this name.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 10") very large margins. Creasing in lower margins.
The Duke of Wellington holding a bearskin and a whip, reciting a list of his jobs in verse. These include 'Cabinet maker / Undertaker / Finance / Beat France / Bony parte / made him smart...'.
Not in George, but see 15787 for a pirate by Gans.
[Ref: 55952] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasant itimation. Alarming state of the times.
WHeath.
Pub nov 9 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Small margins.
Wellington sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, reading a letter: 'Your Grace You Intend giving a Dinner on monday - Mind it will be the last you ever shall give'. He looks startled and exclaims: 'The duece it will'. Wellington was advised not to go to a City banquet because of a plot against his life.
BM Satires: 16301.
[Ref: 39611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Take Care of Your Pockets_A Hint for the Orthodox. "Take heed, have open eyes; for thieves do foot abroad. Shakespeare "Render unto Seizer those things which are Seizers.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub June 2d.1829 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of Paul Pry Caricatures.
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Stained. Cut to platemark.
Satire on the Ministries' alleged interference with the property and doctrine of the Church, which was alleged during a press campaign against the Ministry. Here Peel and Wellington are ragged street urchins trying to pick the pocket of an old parson.
BM Satires: 15791.
[Ref: 30524] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] A Draught of the Old Well _ Ah help, in this extremest need,__If water-gods are deities indeed__vide Dryden. Cheltenham - see the conquering Hero comes!!!
(Paul Pry) Esq. It is a very moving sight.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., 1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), with very large margins watermarked 1827.
Caricature produced at the time of Wellington's visit to Cheltenham for his health, after which he returned feeling much better. Very thin, he walks in discomfort holding a bunch of papers docketed Lord High Adm[iral]. His complexion is mud-coloured (as in some other prints of this date) to show his ill-health.
BM Satires: 15548.
[Ref: 41905] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] The Man Wot Drives the Sovereign.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub April 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet size: 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"), watermarked 'J. Whatman 1828'. Trimmed.
Wellington stands in profile to the right, with his gloved left hand touching the broad brim of his hat. He is dressed as the driver of a mail-coach, holding his whip and a paper resembling the 'Gazette', headed 'Bill', representing the Catholic Relief Act of 1829. The Act was the culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout Britain, drawing support from the Duke of Wellington, as well as from the Whigs and liberal Tories.
BM Satires 15731.
[Ref: 32016] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] This Statue of Roman Cement_has been erected at the cost of the 40s Freeholders- The Noblest Roman of the All.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub April by T McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained.
Caricature of the Duke of Wellington, referring to the Bill to disenfranchise the forty shilling Irish freeholders which accompanied the Catholic Emancipation Relief Act, raising fivefold the economic qualifications for voting. The Bill passed with little opposition but not without protest. Wellington as a statue in Roman armour, holding against his right hip a document inscribed 'Emancipation'. He wears a wreath of battered ears of corn (suggesting the straw crown of the lunatic as well as the Corn Bill), and faces an aggressive raven with the head of Eldon. Other menacing birds fly near. From the pedestal, as a background to the Duke's legs, projects a trophy of flags topped by French imperial eagles, with spear, bayonet, &c.
BM Satires: 15722.
[Ref: 58272] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Change in the Head of Affairs.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
London, Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket. [n.d. c. January 1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 260 x 373mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Very large margins.
Satire on the change of Ministry which followed Goderich's resignation, after which the Duke of Wellington was summoned to Windsor by George IV and commissioned to form an administration. Here the King, depicted with a huge gouty foot, hands a wig to Wellington, who declares 'Happy I am to see the Whig discarded- I'll try and Administer something that shall fit your M_ better'. Goderich had been unable to hold together the fragile coalition of Tories and Whigs assembled by his predecessor, Canning, and resigned after only 144 days in office.
BM Satires: 15498.
[Ref: 37451] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] The Mute-Ability of Affairs!!!_ "His honor Is nothing but mutation, ay, and that From one bad thing to worse._Vide Shakespeare. Undertaker in Chief & Cabinet maker to His M___y.
[Paul Pry] Esqr Del et Scul.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [c. January 1828]
Hand-coloured etching with large margins; paper watermarked: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Plate 372 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼").
Wellington, dressed in black as a mute at a funeral. The title and Shakespeare quotation allude to the Duke's agreement to form an administration ('Cabinet maker') despite making an earlier speech suggesting he would not do so. Wellington was Prime Minister from 1828-1830.
BM Satires: 15501.
[Ref: 30505] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull in Perplexity or Ascendancy versus Union._ His progress they said depended on Ascendancy; and this, they told him was Ascendancy_and consequently the only thing that could do him good. Westminster Review No.19.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 310 x 470mm (12 x 18½"). Trimmed, damage and paper loss on left edge. Tear in right edge.
A very large satirical scene showing the various politicians involved with the debate regarding Catholic emancipation. On the far left, Wellington and Robert Peel stand on the outskirst of a group of figures including Brougham, with a broom in his pocket, Burdett, Scarlett and Eldon. On the right the Duke of Cumberland dances with the devil and in the distance a waggon labelled 'Common State Waggon John Bull & Co.' rushes towards the scene driven by George IV.
BM Satire 15658.
[Ref: 46647] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Take Up Your Bed and Walk!!! During the Duke's Temporary sojourn at Walmer Castle he invariable reposes on the Camp bedstead which form'd his Grace's couch throught the Peninsular Campaigns - the highly prized article of furniture being regularly convey'd from Downing Street to Walmer Castle when ever the Duke, visits the latter place_vide Morning Herald_
William Heath.
Pub Oct 1st 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole publisher of WH Etchings.
Coloured etching. 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Laid on card.
Wellington as a coal porter, carrying his military campbed balanced on his head. Half-way through his first term as Prime Minister, Wellington was already unpopular. He had been appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in January 1829, shortly after being made PM, mainly because he wanted to use Walmer Castle as a country residence. This caricature suggests he should leave government and retire there.
BM Satires: 15867.
[Ref: 55937] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

This ere pair of left off Vellingtons to be sold wery cheap. 'I wish to G-d that sombody would buy Us - Byron'
W.Heath.
Pub Nov 26 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket [but later].
Etching with partial hand colour. 365 x 255mm (14½ x 10"); large margins.
The heads of Wellington and Robert Peel protrude from two Wellington boots, looking at each other with reflective melancholy. Wellington had lost a vote of no confidence on 15th November.
BM Satires: 16345.
[Ref: 39613] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or John Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[Monogram of Paul Pry.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed to image, glue stains in bottom corners.
A fat and gross John Bull, a yokel in a smock, stoops forward to cheer on a terrier with the head of Eldon who grips in his teeth a rat with the (terrified) head of Wellington. Another rat (Peel?) has been flung into the air and falls back. Other rats, all with human heads, scamper away over a heap of unthrashed corn, into which some of them dive, tails only projecting: one disappears down a hole. Behind J. B. is the doorway of the barn, framing the tower of a village church which is shored up by beams, one inscribed 'Prop'.
BM Satires: 15699.
[Ref: 35568] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

George IV & Wellington] The Th___e in Danger. There is a power before the Throne_& a power behing the Throne_greater than the Throne itself. Vide L__d K_gs Speech_
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Slight cockling in left margin and into plate. Some staining in margins.
Wellington, in uniform, stands before George IV, who sits on the throne. Wellington holds up a large cross-hilted sword (the Sword of State). He holds behind him his large plumed cocked hat, from one point of which hangs a paper reading 'Military Commission to throw Dust in John Bulls eyes'. Two papers project from his pockets: Church Patronage and Army Patronage. Lady Conyngham (George's final mistress) peers out from behind a curtain, looking satisfied. The crown is on a table beside Wellington. Etched by William Heath, with his characteristic 'Paul Pry' emblem lower right.
BM Satires: 15512.
[Ref: 37450] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of the Row in Parliment Street.
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry', a man holding an umbrella.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other Caricatures are dail Publishing. [n.d., c.1829.]
Handcoloured etching. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), with wide margins.
A pugilistic encounter between two old market-women who are John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838) and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852). Eldon has a basket of oranges (emblem of the Orange Lodges) beside him, and wears a flat wide-brimmed hat. Wellington wears a soldier's coat over his skirt and apron. Each has a bottle-holder; that of Eldon is John Bull, a stout yokel who puts his hand on his principal's bulging posterior, saying, 'Welldone-—old Mother Baggs—you have got the best bottom after all. see what it is to have a good Constitution—give it her—she has'ent got the Mounshears to deal with now.' Wellington's supporter is a bare-legged Irish ragamuffin with a pipe thrust in his little hat who says 'Murder ye ould cat kape your fists Tight—or you'I let the Ould Orange-Woman bate ye clane.' In the background is a freely sketched crowd of spectators, one of whom represents Robert Peel. Possibly a satire on the 4 April 1827 Lords debate on the second reading of the Catholic Relief Bill, in which Wellington accused Eldon of having thrown "a large paving-stone instead of ... a small pebble". 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, as seen here.
BM Satires: 15721.
[Ref: 39170] £320.00

The Saveall or _ Economy __
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry', a man holding an umbrella.]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., c.1828.]
Handcoloured etching. Plate: 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Very large margins.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852) stands in profile to the left between Apsley House (right) and the Triumphal Arch on Constitution Hill, still with some scaffolding (built by Decimus Burton in 1828 and afterwards temporarily disfigured by the equestrian statue of Wellington). He holds a large flat candlestick on which is a saveall, a device for burning a candle to the last drop of grease. On the saveall is an inverted ducal coronet from which projects a vice (a pun is probably intended) on which is the tiny lighted taper which the Duke is about to extinguish with his glossy top-hat. The rays are inscribed £ 15 pr An, £25 pr An. Behind a hoarding masons and hodmen are working on a scaffold against the new pillars of Apsley House, on which is a placard: Letters & Parcels to be left in Downing St. In the background, also behind a hoarding, are Windsor Castle, surrounded with scaffolding but with a flag flying, and (left) the reconstructed Buckingham Palace, partly hidden by the Arch and placarded ‘Plans Recieved here for Pulling Down’. A satire on the expense of building operations at Windsor (by Wyatville) and at Buckingham Palace (by Nash), and on Wellington's (alleged) lavish expenditure and trifling domestic economies. According to Creevey, 20 Mar. 1828, Nash and others had recently visited Wellington saying that the King wished part of the new buildings at the Palace pulled down and the plan altered; the Duke refused. The Corinthian Portico and bays of the west wing of Apsley House were added in 1828 the same year as Wellington became Prime Minister. 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: 15563.
[Ref: 39174] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Dumps.
W.m Heath ~.
Pub march 29 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Fine coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"), large margins.
The Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington with his Home Secretary, Robert Peel, discussing their defeat in a motion which denied superannuation pensions to Dundas and Bathurst by 18 votes.
BM Satire 16077.
[Ref: 55949] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), with large margins.
A fat John Bull, a yokel in a smock, stoops forward to cheer on a terrier with the head of Eldon who grips in his teeth a rat with the (terrified) head of Wellington. Another rat (? Peel) has been flung into the air and falls back. Other rats, all with human heads, scamper away over a heap of unthrashed corn, into which some of them dive, tails only projecting: one disappears down a hole. Behind J. B. is the doorway of the barn, framing the tower of a village church, which is out of the perpendicular, and shored up by beams, one inscribed 'Prop'.
BM Satires: 15699.
[Ref: 50743] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] A Draught of the Old Well _ Ah help, in this extremest need,__If water-gods are deities indeed__vide Dryden. Cheltenham - see the conquering Hero comes!!!
[Paul Pry] Esq. It is a very moving sight.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., 1828.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 380 x 260mm (14½ x 10"), with large margins.
Caricature produced at the time of Wellington's visit to Cheltenham for his health, after which he returned feeling much better. Very thin, he walks in discomfort holding a bunch of papers docketed Lord High Adm[iral]. His complexion is mud-coloured (as in some other prints of this date) to show his ill-health.
BM Satires: 15548.
[Ref: 52757] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] A Vision -- Past. Present.
William Heath.
Pub Feb 9th 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W Heaths Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins.
Wellington's military success ('past') is contasted with his political instability ('present'). On the left he stands on cloud immediately above Napoleon's tomb, with Fame blowing her trumpet and holding a wreath over his head. On the right he kneels precariously on the summit of a globe which is crushing a number of artisans and farmers, some of whom try desperately to hold it up. It is covered, like a map, with islands or continents inscribed respectively 'Free Trade', 'National Debt', 'Currency', 'Taxes'. Dividing the two scenes, and in the upper part of the design, is a king enthroned, whose fleur-de-lis head identifies him as Charles X. Speech bubble coming from the fleur-de-lis reads 'all for me', the implication being that Napoleon's defeat served only to restore the Bourbons. This print was published only months before Charles was deposed in the July Revolution.
BM Satires: 16030.
[Ref: 43629] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] Oh What a Falling Off Was There _ fully accow/utred the Hero Lay. Review - Pl 2.
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 29 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket- Sole Publisher of P. Pry Caricature.
Etching with fine hand colour. 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"), with large margins.
The Duke of Wellington, in full dress uniform including a bearskin, falls into a muddy puddle. On the 28th of May 1829 Wellington, whilst at a review in Hyde Park, fell from his horse and was cheered by the crowd.
BM Satires 15773.
[Ref: 55406] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Take Care of Your Pockets _ A Hint for the Orthodox. Take heed, have open eyes; for thieves do foot abroad. Shakespeare Render unto Seizer those things which are Seizers.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub June 2d.1829 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of Paul Pry Caricatures.
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), large margins. Paper lightly toned.
Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington and his Home Secretary, Robert Peel, depicted as ragged street urchins trying to pick the pocket of a wary parson. A satire on the Ministries' alleged interference with the property and doctrine of the Church, which was alleged during a press campaign against the Ministry.
BM Satires: 15791.
[Ref: 55954] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Take Care of Your Pockets_A Hint for the Orthodox. "Take heed, have open eyes; for thieves do foot abroad. Shakespeare "Render unto Seizer those things which are Seizers.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub June 2d.1829 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of Paul Pry Caricatures.
Hand-coloured etching, 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed to border.
Satire on the Ministries' alleged interference with the property and doctrine of the Church, which was alleged during a press campaign against the Ministry. Here Peel and Wellington are ragged street urchins trying to pick the pocket of an old parson.
BM Satires: 15791.
[Ref: 60544] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] A Draught of the Old Well _ Ah help, in this extremest need,__If water-gods are deities indeed__vide Dryden. Cheltenham - see the conquering Hero comes!!!
[Paul Pry] Esq. It is a very moving sight.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., 1828.]
Etching with hand colour. Framed, sight size 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame; trimmed to printed border.
Caricature produced at the time of Wellington's visit to Cheltenham for his health, after which he returned feeling much better. Very thin, he walks in discomfort holding a bunch of papers docketed Lord High Adm[iral]. His complexion is mud-coloured (as in some other prints of this date) to show his ill-health.
BM Satires: 15548.
[Ref: 60629] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington]. Punishment Drill.
William Heath.
Pub May 15 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - sole Publisher of W Heath Etchings.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Fine colour, slight mark on title. Unexamined out of frame, trimmed to plate.
The Duke of Wellington caricatured as a private of the Grenadiers, with large bearskin, wades through mud carrying a heavy pack (with items labelled 'Corn Bill', 'Treasury' and 'Currency'), a musket ('Emancipation') and a seemingly empty pouch ('Budget'). The Duke's government was beset by problems, including a Tory revolt.
BM Satires 16117.
[Ref: 60630] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Take Up Your Bed and Walk!!! During the Duke's Temporary sojourn at Walmer Castle he invariable reposes on the Camp bedstead which form'd his Grace's couch throught the Peninsular Campaigns - the highly prized article of furniture being regularly convey'd from Downing Street to Walmer Castle when ever the Duke, visits the latter place_vide Morning Herald_
William Heath.
Pub Oct 1st 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole publisher of WH Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching . Framed, sight size 355 x 245mm (14 x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame, trimmed close to printed border.
Wellington carrying 'the camp bedstead which form'd his Grace's couch throught [sic] the Peninsular Campaigns' and which he supposedly had brought to his favourite country residence of Walmer Castle in Kent when he spent time there.
BM Satires: 15867.
[Ref: 60634] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Going to Downing Street - a sketch - On some great charge employed He seem'd, or fixt in cogitation deep. Vide Milton.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are daily Pub [n.d., c.1828].
Etching with hand colour. Framed, sight size 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Unexamined out of frame.
The Duke of Wellington rides along, peering short-sightedly at papers in his hand. The lines come from 'Paradise Lost'.
BM Satires: 15567.
[Ref: 60635] £320.00

[Duke of Wellington] The Mute-Ability of Affairs!!!_ "His honor Is nothing but mutation, ay, and that From one bad thing to worse._Vide Shakespeare. Undertaker in Chief & Cabinet maker to His M___y.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esqr Del et Scul.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. [c. January 1828]
Hand-coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Unexamined out of frame, slight spotting.
Wellington, dressed in black as a mute at a funeral. The title and Shakespeare quotation allude to the Duke's agreement to form an administration ('Cabinet maker') despite making an earlier speech suggesting he would not do so.
BM Satires: 15501.
[Ref: 60637] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington & William Huskisson] Druming Out. Or Making an Example of a Mutineer.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] inv del.
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket [n.d., 1828].
Hand-coloured etching. Framed. Plate: 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15") Unexamined out of frame, slightly faded.
The Duke of Wellington, in uniform with drum, kicks William Huskisson on the behind, watched by a rank of soldiers from different regiments. Huskisson (1770-1830) had voted against the disfranchisement of East Retford (a rotten borough) contrary to a cabinet decision and was ejected from the government, alongside Lords Palmerston and Melbourne. In 1830 Huskinson attended the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Leaving his carriage to greet Wellington, hoping to repair their relationship, he realised he was on the tracks in front of the oncoming 'Rocket', George Stephenson's pioneering locomotive. He attempted to climb back into the Duke's carriage, but the door swung open, leaving him dangling. He was hit by the Rocket, mangling one of his legs, dying several hours later, becoming the world's first widely reported railway passenger casualty.
BM Satire 15531.
[Ref: 60638] £220.00

[Duke of Wellington] And If I Have Got a Pension Have I Not a Right to It?
William Heath.
Pub Nov 20 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W. Heaths Etchings.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼") Unexamined out of frame.
The Duke of Wellington caricatured as a Chelsea Pensioner, older than his years.
BM Satires 15912.
[Ref: 60640] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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