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A printing press with a pair of legs brandishes a quill wrapped around with hissing snakes and sends all those around it flying off
ART BY: William Heath
A printing press with a pair of legs brandishes a quill wrapped around with hissing snakes and sends all those around it flying off
ART BY: William Heath
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About this artwork
A printing press with a pair of legs brandishes a quill wrapped around with hissing snakes and sends all those around it flying off is an etchings by William Heath (1794–1840), dated May 30th 1820. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4081 × 6000 px (5.0 MB). It is filed under Illustration and Neoclassicism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 196 works by William Heath, a British artist.
William Heath was an English artist who once described himself as a "portrait & military painter." He was best known for his published engravings which included caricatures, political cartoons, and commentary on contemporary life.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by William Heath →
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