Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A Wellington boot - or head of the army.
Call Number
E South 12/GC021/Box 17/Normal/19th c./Artist Heath, William GA 2011.00872
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcz316qd41p
Publisher
London : [s.n.], n.d. [1827/10/--]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 35.3 x 24.3 cm [print]. sheet 42 x 30.7 cm [mount].
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 15430 (gives date as 1827/10/--).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature portrait. Head of Wellington, his body is a boot.
Signed with image of Paul Pry [male figure with cane], lower left.

Discovery Information

Subject
Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
Caricature
Anthropomorphism in art
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852—Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1ad495fa-246d-4df4-904a-c86d6a9ffb7f/manifest