Obediah _ Puzzled

Henry Heath

Obediah _ Puzzled

London S Gans, April 1830

Etching

Original hand colouring

250 x 360 mm

Neat marginal repairs

£180

A rare Heath satire.

Two Quakers conversing as if catechising, one wearing an extravagant waistcoat: ‘Aminidab, how camest thou by that garment for the vain adornment of thine outward man?’, ‘”I created it.”‘, ‘Created it friend?’, ‘”Yea verily – for I said, “Let it be made, and it was made!!’.