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Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: May 26 1829Reference: 31630i- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel compared with the Siamese twins (above); a rich bishop and a poor parson; and a street vendor of figurines. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 January 1830Reference: 12230i- Pictures
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A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 35499i- Pictures
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The gouty George IV using tongs to pass his discarded wig to Wellington; representing the Duke's appointment to office as First Lord of the Treasury. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1828Reference: 12247i- Pictures
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Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1 February 1830]Reference: 2490817i- Pictures
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A large John Bull being held down and force-fed by Peel and Wellington; representing the idea of the Catholic emancipation as a breach of the constitution. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: April 1829Reference: 12224i- Pictures
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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i- Pictures
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A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1828?]Reference: 12079i- Pictures
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Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representing the journal The lancet and its editor Thomas Wakley. Coloured etching by W. Heath (Paul Pry), 182-.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1820-1829Reference: 2057i- Pictures
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An apothecary riding a velocipede (bicycle) in the form of a pestle and mortar. Coloured etching, ca. 1819.
Date: 1819Reference: 10953i- Books
The commom-place book of literary curiosities, remarkable customs, historical and domestic anecdotes, and etymological scraps ... / By the Rev. Dr. Dryasdust, of York.
Dryasdust.Date: 1825- Pictures
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A futuristic vision: technology is over-sophisticated, and the masses devote themselves to intellectual pursuits, while the basic needs of society are neglected. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828, after F.A.
A., F., active 1828.Date: Jany. 23 1828Reference: 36373i- Pictures
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Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a Red Indian points to a pantomime creature in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1811?]Reference: 589897i- Pictures
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Joseph Grimaldi rides on horseback behind Richard Norman astride a tiny horse in a hunting episode of the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1811?]Reference: 589895i- Pictures
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Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a hussar standing before another actor in a clown's costume in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1811?]Reference: 589898i