Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1814 - 1815 - 1816

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James Heath RA  57/58   - Engraver                                 
Mary Heath (ne Phillipson)   57/58             

George Heath   35/36      - Attorney                           
Anne Raymond Heath (ne Dunbar)   27/28 

Julia Anna Harrison (ne Heath) aged 7/8     
John Moore Heath aged 6/7       
Douglas Denon Heath aged 3/4 

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Charles Heath 29/30 - Engraver/Publisher - Half-brother of George Heath - Attorney

Elizabeth Heath (ne Petch) - 25'ish

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The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 1. James Heath A.R.A. by John Heath

Historic Anecdotes (Sir Jonah Barrington) - engraved by James Heath after J.M.Wright, Petrie Knight - published by G.Robinson - more info 1809

1. - Duke of Leinster - plate size 12 x 12. 
2. - Earl of Granard
3. - General Lord Hutchinson
4. - James Napper Tandy
5. - Mr.Secretary Cooke

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The Lord of the Isles (Sir Walter Scott) - engraved by James Heath after Richard Westall R.A. -published by Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, and Longman Hurst. Second edition which also includes four plates by Charles Heath.

1. - 'With sudden impulse...' - plate size 12 x 9 cm. 

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Separate print - engraved by James Heath after E.F.Burney R.A. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1815, but the engraving may predate to about 1805.

1. - 'The late Rt.Hon. William Pitt, High Steward of the University of Cambridge.' Inscribed 'Heath incidit, Burney delineavit' and 'Engraved for use of subscribers only.' - plate size 55 x 25cm.

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Separate print - engraved by James Heath after Titian - published by William Buchanan. 
1. - Titian's Daughter - plate size 31 x 26cm. 'Publ.1 February 1815 of the Work of Select Engravings intended to illustrate the Portraits and Ideal Character of the Great Masters of the Various Schools of Painting.' 

Titian's Daughter - Engraving at Bracken Ridge, Brisbane 2026

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Separate print - engraved by James Heath after J.Field - published by J.Jenkins. The print contains 20 lines of verse: 'Behold the Oak etc.'

1. - 'The Royal Allied Oak.' 'Etch'd by Heath.' 

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The Beauties of Gibbon

Engraving by Charles Heath

The Beauties of Gibbon, consisting of Selections from his Works. by Alfred Howard Esq.,

London, printed by T.Davison for Thomas Tegg, No.73 Cheapside, 

R.Griffin and Co., Glasgow and

J.Cumming, Dublin

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Thursday 12 January 1815 
The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 1. James Heath A.R.A. by John Heath

To Robert Balmanno,

My Dear Sir,
I called this morning to say I should be glad to have one of the Sets of the Shakesperian Prints - Mr.Pye informs me there are two - I was not aware there were so many done for the work or should certainly have decided to have had them before - I shall be at home all this Evening if you are not engaged I shall be glad if you would favor me with a call.

Yours truly,
C.Heath.
 

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Wednesday 18 January 1815
Star (London)

This day is published, in One Volume, 4 vo

Handsomely printed by Bulmer on superfine Royal paper, price in boards £5.5s, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,

An Account of a Mission to Abyssinia and Travels in the Interior of that Country - 
executed under the Orders of the British Government, in the years 1809 and 1810, in which is included an account of the Portuguese Settlements on the Eastern coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage;a concise Summary of late Occurrences in Arabia Feliz; and some particulars respecting the Aboriginal African Tribes extending from Mozambique to the Borders of Egypt, together with vacaularies of their respective Languages.
by Henry Salt Esq., F.R.S. &c.

Printed for F.C. and J.Rivington, 62 St.Paul's Church Yard, 

N.B. This Work is illustrated with a large sheet Map of Abyssinia, and several Charts laid down from original surveys and observations by the Author, together with 29 Engravings and Etchings, executed by Charles Heath Esq., from Drawings taken on the spot. A few copies are printed on Imperial Paper, with first impressions of the Plates, price £8.8s.

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Sunday 19 February 1815 - Heath book 3
The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 3 - by John Heath

From Mr.Heath, No.6 Seymour Place, Somertown, London.

Hurry of business at the end & beginning of the year has made me rather delay writing you too long - The Frontispiece to the Encyclopedia not being ready at the time we originally specified and which you undertook, was a great loss and disappointment to us.

We were however very glad to receive it at the time we did and very well pleased with the work, but really, you expect too much for it. Fifty Guineas was the sum you originally mentioned and altho' that price was not actually fixed yet I could not have supposed that you would have expected so much as Pounds 21 more. 

The work is not entirely your own, and we cannot without incurring blame from others pay your demand without a remonstrance in short I trust you will be satisfied with Pounds 63 for which you shall have our note payable at our Bankers in London at 3 m.f.d. - - I beg you will believe that it is no Custom of ours to cut down or dispute about accounts but in the present case, the sum charge apears to me so very high - that I could not find myself justified in paying it - without putting it before you for a reduction as I never do.

Awaiting your reply - I am etc (signed)
A.C. (Archibald Constable)

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Thursday 26 January 1815
Statesman (London)

Gibson v Dickie
Mr.Heath moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the Plaintiff should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered, upon a point reserved by Lord Ellenborough at the trial at the last Middlesex Sittings. The action was upon a special agreement, reciting that the Plaintiff had for many years co-habited with the Defendant, and that the Defendant had agreed to grant an annuity to her in case of their separation, to be paid to her only in the event of her continuing single, and not co-habiting with Daniel Gardiner, or any other man.

Mr.Heath contended that being in restraint of marriage the agreement was illegal and void. Lowe v Peers, Bur. 2,225.

Lord Ellenborough - Is it more than a condition that she shall live solute casta; and why should not such a proviso be as good here as in a marriage settlement? - Rule refused.

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Thursday 26 January 1815
Star (London)

Court of King's Bench, January 24
(Tried before Lord Ellenborough at Guildhall?)
Gibsin v Dickons.
This was an action brought by the Plaintiff (a single woman) against the Defendant for a breach of covenant. A verdict had been taken for Plaintiff.

Mr.Heath now moved an Arrest of Judgment. The facts of the case were as follows. The plaintiff, it appeared, had cohabited with the defendant for several years; and he had occasionally had various sums of money of her. At length it was agreed, as some disagreements had arisen between them, that, should they separate, the defendant should pay into the hands of a third person the sums of money he had received from the plaintiff, and also allow her an annuity of £30 per annum, so long as she continued unmarried, or refrained from cohabiting with one Daniel Gardener, or any other man; the plaintiff is still unmarried, and no proof was adduced at the trial that she had cohabited with any man; yet the defendant refused to pay her annuity; and, for the arrears due, an action was brought, and the Jury gave her a verdict.

Mr.Heath now moved an Arrest of Judgment on the grounds that this agreement was illegal on two grounds; first, inasmuch as it is to keep her living with the defendant in a state of concubinage; and, secondly, inasmuch as it prevented her forming matrimonial engagements, which both policy, law, and morality required should be as much promoted as possible.

The Court, however, disposed of the first point immediately, and observed that instead of this agreement operating to keep the plaintiff living in a state of concubinage with the defendant, it had a contrary effect, inasmuch as it provided her with the means of living if she chose to quit him; and with respect to the second point, it no more operated against her forming matrimonial connections, than did many marriage settlements and wills, in which it was provided that widows and others, if they married, should cease to enjoy those advantages, which, under such wills and settlements, if they continued singe, they would enjoy. Yet those wills and settlements were never objected to as illegal.

Application refused.

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Tuesday 11 April 1815
Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser

Chelmsford Assizes
Wynn v. the Rev.V.Smythies
This was on of the numerous actions at the Chelsmford Assizes, brought by a Mr.Wynn, against the Clergy in that part of the Kingdom for non-residence.

The defendant is Rector of the Parish of St.Martin's in Colchester, and also of Little Bentley, a village about eight miles distant. The action was brought to recover penalties to a considerable amount, under the Act of the 43d of the King, alleged to have been incurred by the defendant for non-residence at the above benefices.

The plaintiff admitted, as the fact was, "that the defendant had always resided either at one benefice or the other, and the case therefore resolved itself into a question of law, which was argued by Mr.Gurney, Mr.Heath and Mr.Spankey, for the plaintiff; and by Mr.Serjeant Best, Mr.Marryatt and Mr.Know for the defendant.

It appeared that there was not a parsonage in St.Martin's, but the defendant chiefly resided in that parish in a house of his own, and when he as not there, he constantly resided at the parsonage -house of Little Bentley. It was argued on the plaintiff that he defendant's residence at St.Martin's was not a legal residence, because there was no parsonage, and that he ought therefore to have resided at Little Bentley, where there was a parsonage.

On the part of the defendant, it was contended that the law required a pluralist to be resident on one of his benefices only, and that where there is no parsonage house, a residence within the limits of the benefice is a legal residence, and consequently that the defendant had incurred no penalties.

Mr.Baron Wood being of this opinion, the plaintiff was non-suited.
    

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Monday 8 May 1815
Sun (London)

Proposals for publishing, by Subscription a Print of The Drowned Fisherman, or the Moment of Suspense; to be engraved by James Heath, A.R.A., Historical Engraver to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Regent, from a Picture painted by Richard Westall R.A., in the Possession of John North Esq.

The subject is the Wife and Child of a drowned Fisherman finding his body on the beach after a storm. The point of time represented is when the Wife is about to lift a part of a Sail which conceals the Face of the drowned Person, and before she is quite certain that it is the Body of her Husband.
Conditions.

1.The Size of the Engraving to be 23½ by 17½, being the Size of the Print of the "Dead Soldier," to which it may be considered an appropriate Companion.
2. The Price to Subscribers will be Two Guineas, half to be paid at the time of subscription, and the remainder on the delivery of the Print.

3. Proofs Four Guineas.
4.A few Etchings will be taken at the price of the Proofs.
5. The Prints to be delivered in the order of Subscription. 

Subscriptions received at Mr.Heath's, No.15 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square.

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Wednesday 16 August 1815
Morning Herald (London)

Westall's Bible - Part VI.

This Day is published, price One Guinea, and on large Paper, with Proof Impressions of the Plates, price Two Guineas.

Part of the Sixth of The Holy Bible,

with Engravings by Charles Heath, from Drawings by Richard Westall Esq., R.A.
Part VII. which will complete the Work, is just ready for publication. As it will contain six plates, being one more than was originally proposed, an extra charge of three shillings for the small, and five shillings for the large paper, will not, it is hoped, be deemed unreasonable.

The Proprietors having now completed their engagement with the Subscribers, are under the necessity of stating, that owing to the great increase of their expenses beyond the original estimate, the price of the work will be raised immediately after the publication of the Seventh Part; until which time they will attend to orders at the original price, addressed to No.63 Fleet Street.
 

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Friday 15 December 1815
British Press

Plates to Lord Byron's Poems

This day is published, price, in foolscap 8vo. - 18s - 8vo. 30s. - and a few Proof: 2/.2s.
Twelve Plates, to illustrate the Poems of the Right Honourable Lord Byron, 
Engraved by Charles Heath, Engleheart, Finden, and Rhodes.

From original Drawings by Stothard.

Printed for John Murray, Albermarle Street, London. Of whom may be had, just published, Lord Byron's Works, complete, handsomely printed in 4 vols., foolscap 8vo. 28s. and New Editions also of each Poem, separately, with Titles, &c.,. to form, if bound together, the works equally complete in 2 vols. octavo.
 

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1815
The Arts

The Morning Chronicle ?
Amongst the principal works of the Fine Arts now in hand may be enumerated the following:

Mr.Charles Heath's Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple after West.

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1815-1816  

The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 3 - by John Heath

Dear Sir,

To serve the Widow of Mr.Cromek, I have undertaken to finish the Plate of the Pilgrims. If instead of the Dog you will be kind enough to finish the White Horse it will serve the Widow and very much oblige.
Your obedient servant, 
J.Heath. Russell Place 
 

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