Peeling a Charley.
William Heath.
Pub Sep 29th 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publisher of W Heaths etchings.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 355mm (9½ x 14"). Trimmed to printed border.
Robert Peel pulls the overcoat off a nightwatchman to throw onto a burning watch box, as the watchman begs for mercy. Another watchman hangs from a tree, still holding his lamp and rattle. An arm also holding a rattle sticks up out of a lake. A satire on the replacement of the district watch system with Peel's new police force, and the phasing out of the watch boxes which the watchmen often lived in. 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: 15862.
[Ref: 51588] £260.00
Pub Sep 29th 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publisher of W Heaths etchings.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 355mm (9½ x 14"). Trimmed to printed border.
Robert Peel pulls the overcoat off a nightwatchman to throw onto a burning watch box, as the watchman begs for mercy. Another watchman hangs from a tree, still holding his lamp and rattle. An arm also holding a rattle sticks up out of a lake. A satire on the replacement of the district watch system with Peel's new police force, and the phasing out of the watch boxes which the watchmen often lived in. 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: 15862.
[Ref: 51588] £260.00