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• Author/Creator:Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
  
• Title:A comfortable thing to be king of Greece [graphic] / W. Heath.
  
• Publication:[London] : Pub. March 6, 1830 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [6 March 1830]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 26.1 x 38 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 44 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 830.03.06.01+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Andrew Edmunds; November 2020.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  
• Summary:"Prince Leopold sits enthroned, flanked by his new subjects; he wears uniform with a crown, and sits on a two-tiered circular dais in a chair of state, the seat of which is covered with giant thorns. Punctured and frightened, he grasps the arms of his chair with crisped fingers; his toes are drawn back, touching the ground, and he looks towards a savage-looking Greek (right) who kneels before him with a long knife held behind his back. A similar ruffian kneels on the left; others approach menacingly from the left, one smoking a long pipe and grasping a knife. They wear Greek costume with embroidered jackets and full white breeches. On the right are long-robed ecclesiastics, headed by a bearded patriarch with a cross in one hand, a knife in the other."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11, no. 16067
  
• Subjects:Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Greeks, depicted.
  Ethnic stereotypes.
  Thrones.
  Crowns.
  Thorns.
  Knives.
  Pipes (Smoking)
  Clergy.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1830.
  Etchings--England--London--1830.
  
• Also listed under:McLean, T. (Thomas), publisher.