Grosvenor Prints

[Wellington] 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. 320 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾"). Trimmed into printed border.
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: 63386] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Wellington in caricature.
By John Physick.
Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1965.
8vo., pp. viii + 45. Illustrated wrapper, 95 b/w plates. Slightly stained cover and distressed spine.
A selection of 45 satires of the Duke of Wellington from the Department of Prints and Drawing of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
See Ref: 59735
[Ref: 59752] £60.00

The Duke of Wellington and his political career after Waterloo - the caricaturists' view.
Edward du Cann.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2000.
4to, blue cloth gilt with illus d/w. pp. 143, colour illustrations. Small tear in d/w.
A selection of over 100 satires of the Duke of Wellington as a politician.
See Ref: 59752
[Ref: 59735] £60.00

The Duke of Coldbath Fields Making Choice of a New Ministry. The Political Drama. No 45.
[by Charles Jameson Grant.]
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market [n.d., 1834].
Wood engraving with letterpress text. Sheet 270 x 350mm (10½ x 13¾"). Trimmed around titles, laid on album paper at sides.
The Duke of Wellington sits on a dining chair, his feet on two more, selecting the new Tory Govenment in 1834 from a group of six unkept and uncooth men, Wellington declined to become prime minister, standing aside for Robert Peel. However Peel was in Italy, so Wellington acted as interim leader for three weeks in November and December 1834. Wellington is reading "Rookwood: a Romance" by William Harrison Ainsworth. It was one of the most successful novels of the 19th century but has been eclipsed by the works of Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 57797] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV & Wellington] Great Connoiseurs examining a celebrated Cabinet Picture.
T.H.J. [Thomas Howell Jones] fec.t.
London Pub.d 1830, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained.
George IV, Lady Conyngham and the Duke of Cumberland examine a new portrait of the Duke of Wellington, expressing negative views of the increasingly unpopular Prime Minister.
BM Satires 16048.
[Ref: 61130] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 260 x 250mm (10¼ x 14½"), 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)

The Cabinet-Maker's Complaint.
A Sharpshooter fec. [John Phillips.]
Pub. by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street Strand June 16 1829.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Plate 249 x 349mm (9¾ x 13¾") Light Brown liquid stain that has created some cockling that can be felt. Small margins.
Illustration of the many rumours of Ministerial changes and Wellington's supposed ruthlessness. He addresses George IV, claiming that 'Bob' (Robert Peel) and 'Chancery Jack' (Lyndhurst) 'are fighting instead of minding their work- The vagabonds von't be easy 'till I bundles 'em out'. On the wall behind him is a small picture of 'Bob & Chancery Jack', visualising the conflict between the two.
BM Satires: 15807.
[Ref: 52751] £120.00 (£144.00 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 & 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 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] That Old Thief wants to run away with my Bread and Butter.
[by William Heath.]
Pub May 8 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Unexamined out of frame.
The Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, starts in surprise as a skeleton dress in black, leans in to take bread and butter from a larder. The new sliding scale of duty in the Importation of Corn Act 1828 did not reduce the price of bread enough to allieviate the suffering of the rural poor.
BM Satires 16115.
[Ref: 61156] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] The - Omni - Buss.
William Heath.
Pub Oct 3d 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publisher of W H etchings.
Etching with fine hand colour. Framed, sight size 240 x 345mm (9½ x 17½"). Framed close to printed border, unexamined out of frame.
Satire of the British government as the newly-invented omnibus, with Wellington as driver, Peel (in police uniform as conductor) and George IV and Lady Conyngham as passengers. It is being pulled down a hill marked 'National Debt' by three horses with faces: in the centre is a John Bull, on the left an Irishman and the right a Scot. 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 the monogram was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
BM Satires: 15887.
[Ref: 61158] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] Blind Mans Buff with the poor. There is none so Blind as him who will not see.
William Heath.
Pub Feb 12. 1830 by T.McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publishers of WH's etchings.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 17½"). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
Wellington as Prime Minister, in civilian dress but wearing a military medal, stands with closed eyes, bending forward and extending his arms, surrounded by ragged and starving men and women. He says: 'I can't See you'. Some cry, 'Pray open your eyes'; others, 'have pity on us'. A woman seated on the ground, holding a child, extends a hand; a man holds out his hat for alms. This was an attack on Wellington for his Corn Law, which put punitive duty on imports, to protect English landowners but keeping the price of bread high despite food shortages. Despite many opponents (including Karl Marx) the Corn laws lasted until 1846.
BM: 16032.
[Ref: 61159] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington and the Catholic Relief Bill] Doing Homage. _Thus they in lowliest plight, repentant bow_Mil[ton].
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured etching. Framed. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
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: 61194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington & the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts] Grand Battle of Lords Spiritual and Temporal or Political courage brought to the Test.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath]
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c. May 1828].
Scarce coloured etching. Framed, sight size 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
A tournament melée, with the riders attacking each other with bladders on the ends of sticks. In the centre is Wellington in dress uniform, one of the few not wearing medieval armour. His opponents include Eldon and the Dukes of Newcastle and Cumberland. A satire on the debates in the Lords on 17 & 21 April, 1828, on the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts
BM Satires: 15530.
[Ref: 61196] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] Leaving the House of Lords-Through the Assembled Commons. A Scene in Palace Yard.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub March 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
Satire on the softening of the Duke of Wellington's stance towards Catholic Emancipation. Wellington rides determinedly through an angry proletarian crowd protesting 'No popery / No Catholic ministers'. As the vote on Catholic Relief approached, inflammatory bills with woodcuts of Popish tortures and other devices had been distributed to inflame the populace against Emancipation.
BM Satires: 15694.
[Ref: 61198] £220.00 (£264.00 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.]
Fine coloured etching. Framed, sight size 235 x 345mm (9¼ x 13½"). Framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
John Bull questions Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington about the 'Little Queen' (Mary II of Portugal who had been recently deposed by her uncle Miguel) and the Catholic Relief Bill. Wellington, dressed like an undertaker, keeps 'mum'. Wellington had concealed his intention to bring in Emancipation till a day or two before the opening of Parliament, thus aggravating Tory resentment. He also silently supported Miguel while expressing neutrality.
BM Satires: 15659.
[Ref: 61173] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] The Swell-Mob - Milling the Glaze.
W.H. [William Heath]
Pub May 2d 1831 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 230 x 340mm (9 x 13½"). Framed over printed border, repaired tear in title; unexamined out of frame.
A street scene with ragged Tories smashing windows illuminated for the dissolution of Parliament. From left to right are Peel, Londonderry, Wellington, Eldon, Scarlett (dressed as a woman) and Ellenborough. Wellington aims a handful of mud at the king's cypher on a wall. Lord Grey called a general election hoping for a better majority for his Whig government, leading to demonstrations by the Tories, although the windows of Wellington's home, Apsley House, were also smashed. 'Mill the glaze' was slang for 'break a window'; the 'swell mob' were pickpockets who dressed respectably to blend in.
BM Satire: 15701.
[Ref: 61177] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington & Peel] Those Fellows are a Great Nuisance - I Can't See - Havent Got my Spectacles Bob.
W. Heath.
Pub March 21 1831 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 230 x 340mm (9 x 13½"). Some staining, framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame. Slight foxing.
Wellington, guided by Peel, hurries after a man carrying a placard on a pole with the message headed 'Reform in Parliament'.
BM Satire: 16614.
[Ref: 61178] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] 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 [n.d., c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Small 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. Of interest is the extra text around the top of the plate, issuing for the small figure of Paul Pry: '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'. This piracy led Heath to drop Pry by 1830.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 61311] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Wellington] Rats in the barn. Or Iohn Bulls famous old dog Billy astonishing the Varment.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatuers Daily Pub.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
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: 63388] £290.00 (£348.00 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)

[Wellington] 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"), with 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)

[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)

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)

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 & 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. 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1827', large margins. Old ink numeral in edge of plate.
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: 63477] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] The Testimonial - to be erected in the Phenix Park Dublin
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub June 5 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sole Publisher of Paul Prys Caricatuers none are Original without McLeans name.
Etching with very fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
A satire on the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park, at the time unfinished because of lack on funds. The Duke sits on a close-stool (covered chamber pot) marked '40 Free', which is balanced on a lion with the face of Lord Eldon, which in turn lies on a volume titled 'Constitution. On Wellington's shoulders sits Pope Pius VIII, who grins down on a ragged Irishman. Robert Peel peeks out from behind. The 'forty-shilling freeholders' were those who owned or rented land that was worth at least that amount, and thus were eligible to vote.
BM Satires: 15831.
[Ref: 63389] £360.00

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)

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, pseudonym of William Heath.]
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)

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)

Obsequies of His Grace the Late Illustrious Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, K.G. K.C.B. &c. &c. 18th November 1852.
Drawn & On Stone by A Maclure.
MacLure, MacDonald & MacGregor, Lithographers to the Queen, London, Manchester & Glasgow. [n.d., 1852.]
Large folio, original lithographed illustrated wrappers, original silk ties; four tinted lithographs on chine collé, complete?. Some foxing. Covers bit dusty.
Illustrations commemorating the funeral of the Duke of Wellington: an oval portrait; the lying-in-state at Chelsea Hospital; the arrival of the carriage at St Paul's Cathedral and the service in the cathedral. In 1851 MacLure, MacDonald & Co imported a Sigl machine from Germany which was capable of printing 600 sheets an hour and the firm is believed to be the first in the UK to use steam power for lithographic printing. They invented their own steam-driven press in 1853. The firm closed in 1992.
[Ref: 48285] £680.00 view all images for this item

[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 T McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of WH's etchings.
Fine coloured etching. Framed, sight size 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼''). Framed over platemark, unexamined out of frame.
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. 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 the monogram was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
BM Satire 15875.
[Ref: 61169] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Wicked Subject. Oh! Just take the top off. I say Welling**n this has been burning a long time shall I snuff it short or snuff it out. Political Scraps No. 1.
Pub.d Nov. 10th 1843 by W.H. Mason 81 King's Road, Brighton & Ackermann & Co Strand. Bogue Fleet Street London.
Rare mezzotint. 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Small margins.
Daniel O'Connor reaches out to snuff out a candle, with a human head in the flame, in a candlestick placed on a 'History of Ireland'; Wellington tries to sleep in a chair and tells him to take the top off. Mezzotint is an unusual medium for caricatures of this period. O'Connor's speech bubble has been re-rocked, obscuring some words.
BM 1868,0808.9549, described as an aquatint with etching.
[Ref: 47427] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A. Wicked Subject. Oh! Just take the top off. I say Welling**n this has been burning a long time shall I snuff it short or snuff it out.
Political Scraps No.1.
Pubd. Novr. 10th 1813 by WH Mason 81, Kings Road Brighton, & Ackermann & Co. Strand, Bogue Fleet Street London.
Mezzotint and engraving. 205 x 274mm (8" x 10¾").
Political Irish Satire of the early 1800s.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 8424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Noddle Bazaar.
Q. & H.B. [John Doyle.]
Published by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, Sep 9 1830.]
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed to printed border. Very slight nick bottom right margin.
Wellington and Peel peruse various busts of politicians, deciding which ones to buy for the new cabinet for William IV's first government. On the ground lower left is a bust of O'Connell: 'This head wont be sold until it be bought'. John Doyle (1797-1868), worked under the pseudonym 'HB' from 1827, usually issuing one satire a month during parliamentary seasons. Doyle preserved his anonymity as 'H.B.' until 1843, when he revealed himself to Sir Robert Peel in a letter justifying his motives and principles as a cartoonist.
BM Satires: 16264.
[Ref: 51587] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Seven Etchings of Wellington College
by Edward J. Burrow.
W.H. Benyon & Co., Fine Art Publishers to the Queen, Cheltenham. [1895]
List of plates and seven interleaved etchings as called for bound in folio. 390 x 300mm. 15¼ x 12". Discoloration to list of plates, occasional foxing in margins.
Seven plates of Wellington College: 1. The College (from the South) 2. A Corner of the Quadrangle. 3. The Pavilion. 4. A Picturesque Corner. 5. The Ante-Chapel. 6. The "No-Thoroughfare" Gate. 7. The College (from the Lakes). The college was founded in 1859 as a monument to the Duke of Wellington.
[Ref: 15549] £480.00 view all images for this item

The Triumphal Entry of the Duke of Wellington into Madrid. To His Royal Highness the Duke of York this Engraving from a Picture in the Possession of His Majesty [...]
Painted by William Hilton R.A. Engraved by John Bromley
Pub.d by R. Bowyer Pall Mall March 1825.
Mezzotint on india, proof; platemark 390 x 525mm (15¼ x 20¾"), with very large margins. India paper slight lifting.
The liberation of Madrid in 1812 following Wellington's victory at the Battle of Salamanca, one of his finest victories. Fine engraving after a painting by William Hilton (1786-1839), who specialised in dramatic historical, biblical and mythological subjects.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 40378] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo Marques Wellington.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Rare engraved fan design. Sheet: 520 x 270mm (20½ x 10½''). Staining and creasing.
A Spanish fan design with a mounted portrait of the Duke of Wellington. In January 1812 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Viscount Wellington was given the title Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo after his victory at the Seige of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812.
[Ref: 49055] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Car of the Late Duke of Wellington.
Elliot. Holywell-street, Strand, London.
[n.d. c.1852.]
Woodcut with hand colour. Printed area 240 x 735mm (9½ x 29"). Original folds, creasing.
A popular print of the funeral car of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington. A canopied carriage drawn by twelve black horses, it carried his body through London to St Paul's Cathedral where Wellington was laid next to Lord Nelson.
[Ref: 57586] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Car of the Duke of Wellington.
J.T. Wood. Holywell Sc.
[n.d. c.1852.]
Engraving. 115 x 152mm. 4½ x 6".
The funeral car of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). It carried his body through London to St Paul's Cathedral where Wellington was laid next to Lord Nelson.
[Ref: 16622] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Wellington Harbour.
C.D. Barraud del. W.D. Blatchley, Lith. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
A view of Wellington from 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61016] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Obituary.] The Duke of Wellington. The great Duke has departed...
The Religious Tract Society, Instituted 1799; 56 Paternoster Row, and 164, Piccadilly. [n.d., 1852.]
Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, 4pp., with black border.
An obituary of Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, concentrating on his military successes and 'the simplicity and temperance of his habits' rather than his political career
[Ref: 39698] £65.00

The Speech of His Grace, Field Marshal, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Marquis Duoro, K.G. K.B. &c. &c. Delivered to the House of Commons, on Friday, July 1, 1814; The Reply of the Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker.
[1814.]
A rare broadside. 'J. Whatman 1813' watermark. Sheet: 535 x 380mm (21 x 15''). Folded.
A broadside detailing the events of July I 1814 when the Duke of Wellington made a speech in the House of Commons thanking them for their support during the war with Napoleon and the Speaker in turn made a speech to Wellington, thanking him for his military service. In April 1814 Napoleon was exiled to Elba bringing an end to the War of the Sixth Coalition, the brief period of Peace was brought to an end on 1st March 1815 when Napoleon landed in Cannes having escaped Elba.
[Ref: 49027] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke's Funeral: A Poem.
By Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart., Late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford.
London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., Foreign Booksellers, 148 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1852.
Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, pp.16, two wood engravings. With ink mss envelope (?) with Doyle's signature pasted at rear. Lacking wrappers, pages mounted in album paper. Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper.
With an interior of Chelsea Hospital during the lying-in-state, and a view of the funeral procession with the hearse. Doyle (1810-88) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1867 and caricatured by Spy in 1877.
[Ref: 37182] £160.00 view all images for this item

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