King Henry IV. Artist: William Heath ('Paul Pry') (British, London 1795-1840 Hampstead). Dimensions: Plate: 14 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (36.8 × 26 cm)Sheet: 16 15/16 × 11 1/4 in. (43 × 28.5 cm). Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, active London 1788-1885). Subject: George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland (British, London 1762-1830 Windsor); Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conynhgam (British, 1769-1861); Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham; Sir William Curtis (British, 1752-1829). Date: ca. 1827.Heath's satire mocks George IV and his mistress Elizabeth, Marchioness Conygham, with the title intended to echo a well known work by Henry Fuseli that shows the fat knight Falstaff at the Boar's Head Tavern, canoodling with Doll Tearsheet, in a scene from Shakespeare's "King Henry IV, part II." The painting was hung in Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, on Pall Mall in London between 1789 and 1805, and was engraved by William Satchwell Leney (see 42.119.534). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ne
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