A Moving Scene on the Road to Slane

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Artist/Maker	William Heath (designed) Thomas McLean (published)
Place of origin	London (published)

Etched caricature, with hand colouring, showing the Conyngham family moving from Windsor Castle to Slane Castle.

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Object type	Print
Title	A Moving Scene on the Road to Slane (published title)
Materials and techniques	Paper Etching Hand Colouring
Brief description	Etched caricature, with hand colouring, showing the Conyngham family moving from Windsor Castle to Slane Castle.
Style	19th Century
Marks and inscriptions	A Moving Scene on the Road to Slane (Title inscribed below image within border) W Heath (Printmaker's name inscribed in lower left of borer) Pub June 29 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket (Publication line inscribed in lower right corner of border) Are you sure we have got evry thing safe (Speech inscribed in upper left) I have taken care of my self depend on it (Speech inscribed in upper left) I say old jontleman - you put me moihtily in moind of a Comb—y ere all back & Teeth—& faith yere a Horn Comb an thats what ye are (Speech inscribed in upper right corner) Slane Castle (Inscribed on the castle in the upper left of the image) MAN. TRAPS. PIGS beware (Inscribed on sign outside 'Slane Castle' in upper left corner)
Credit line	Bequeathed by John Jones
Subject depicted	Elizabeth Conyngham
Place depicted	Windsor Castle
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	1233:44-1882

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Record created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O248045/a-moving-scene-on-the-print-william-heath/

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