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[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
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