Description:
Attributed to William Heath ("Paul Pry") (British, 1795-1840)
Belles and Beaus, or A Scene in Hyde Park. Unsigned, titled in the plate l.c. Hand-colored etching, published August 12, 1817, by Thomas Tegg (British, 1776-1846),sight size 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (22.2 x 32.4 cm),framed.
Condition: Fading to the lettering, not examined out of frame.
Literature: Frederic George Stephens, M. Dorothy George, Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 11 vols., London, 1870, vol. IX, cat. no. 12939.
Estimate $300-500
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