“One of the Select Vestry!!!“ Original Regency Caricature Print, 1829

“One of the Select Vestry!!!“ Original Regency Caricature Print, 1829

Code: 11179

Dimensions:

H: 33.3cm (13.1")W: 24cm (9.4")

£200.00

"One of the Select Vestry!!! (Parish Characters in Ten Plates by Paul Pry Esq.r-)
Paul Pry (pseudonym of  William Heath (1795-1840)
Etching with original hand colouring
Published by T McLean, Haymarket
London, 1829

Framed and glazed

Measures:-
33.3 cm x 24 cm (visible aperture)
49.7 cm x 38.7 cm (framed)

A grotesque caricature of the Marchioness of Conyngham (1769-1861) who was one of the mistresses of the Prince Regent/George IV from 1819 until his death in 1830 and benefited greatly from the arrangement.

BM Satires: 15789.  (See BM 1868,0808.9017)