Caricature of a Shooting Subject: 1st September - Here's A Treat (Primary Title)

Henry Heath, English, active 1850 (Artist)

19th century
English
Works On Paper
Drawings
watercolor over pen and ink with touches of gouache on heavy grey wove paper
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 6 7/16 in. (23.02 × 16.35 cm)
Mount: 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (30.8 × 24.13 cm)
Mat: 19 × 12 1/2 in. (48.26 × 31.75 cm)
85.977.1
Not on view
Signed lower right: Heath
Inscribed in blue ink above image in center: "1st September." Inscribed in black ink beneath image in center: "here's a treat! not a single Bird. I don't think much of this Battersea!/ after all." Inscribed in graphite on verso lower right: "HRH 19-1" Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower right: "H. Heath."
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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