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
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