An outside jaunting car

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William Heath
1795-1840
An outside jaunting car
hand-colored etching
image: 245 x 360 mm; sheet: 261 x 376 mm
Peel 2102
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Does not appear in George, M.D. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Author represented by the tiny figure of a man with a walking stick, lower right below image.
Printed after title: Sketches of Irish character Pt. 1.
Trimmed to plate mark.

Summary: 

Three well-dressed grotesques are driven in an outside jaunting car through a poor Irish village, scattering pigs as they go. The Driver, cracking a whip, says "Are' now dont open you Head". A poor woman outside a hut bearing the sign "Intertainment / with Beds, Whisky / & Good Dry Lodging", waves a pitchfork and shouts, "The Devil cure your soul you / Blackgard are ye goin' to murder / all the Powltry -- long bad luck and / plenty of it -- to the / likes of ye".

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