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
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