Heath (William) [Paul Pry]

No. 3 from the series ‘Sketches of Character’, a risqué social satire depicting a coquettish young maid addressing her unseen master, firmly clutching the long handle of a copper warming pan in her left hand, a nightlight with a very short candle in her right hand, showing her slender ankles and dainty feet below her full dress and apron, her pretty face with plump cheeks and rosebud lips, her curly black hair escaping from the surrounding frilly bonnet, signed in the lower left corner with the characteristic image of Heath’s alter ego, Paul Pry,

etching with original hand-colouring, 375 x 255 mm. 14 3/4 x 10 in), slight marginal browning, [not in BM Satires],