Code: 11179
Dimensions:
"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)