Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1847 - 1848 - 1849

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George Heath Serjeant-at-Law  - age 68/69              1779-1852

Julia Anna Harrison (ne Heath) - age 40/41              1807-1879
Rev. John Moore Heath - aged 39/40                        1808-1882
Douglas Denon Heath - aged 36/37                          1811-1897
Dunbar Isidore Heath - age 31/32                             1816-1888
Leopold G. Heath R.N. - age 30/31                          1817-1907
Emma Jane Heath (later Whatman) - age 26/27       1821-1884

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Saturday 1 January 1848
La Belle Assemblee

Literature
The Book of Beauty - The Keepsake.

Edited by the Countess of Blessington
With Christmas and New Year come the Annuals in their gorgeous livery of crimson and purple and gold; and among them none more welcome than those old-established favourites. The Book of Beauty, however, or "Regal Gallery," is on an entirely new plan. The volume for 1848 lays claim to the title of an historical work, the literature consisting solely of twelve memoirs of Queens of England. We rejoice to find that to this the pen of the noble and gifted editress has largely contributed. One might have thought Miss Strickland - so far as her elaborate work yet goes - had exhausted the subject; but in the memoirs of Henry the Eighth's second, third and sixth wives, the Countess of Blessington has proved otherwise; in their fresh style and manner.   - - - continues - - -

 The Keepsake also presents new features. In the first place, while the binding is richer than ever,it is also much more substantial; and the verses the book contains are few in number than usual, but all - poetry. The frontispiece is an exquisite portrait of Jenny Lind, to which a beautiful and enthusiastic poem is written by Miss Power.  "The Last Moment" is a fine engraving by Charles Heath, from a drawing by Henry Warren, and carried out forcibly the sentiment and incident it illustrates. The "Grand Entrance of the Chamber of Peers," and the "Diana Gallery at Fontainbleau," after Allom, are master-pieces of their kind; but pictures are not to be described. Whoever looks into the Keepsake will find several more gems of art than we have enumerated. Tales, sketches,and poems are contributed by the Countess of Blessington, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mrs S.C.Hall, R.Bernal Esq., Walter Savage Landor,  - - continues....

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Monday 3 January 1848
Morning Herald (London)

Mr.Charles Heath's Annual.
Now ready, at all Booksellers, price One Guinea.

The Keepsake for 1848. Edited by the Countess of Blessington; assisted by the best writers of the day. With engravings, executed by the first engravers, under the superintendence of Mr.Charles Heath.

Also - 
The Book of Beauty; or, Regal Gallery: Portraits of the Queens of England. With Historical Memoirs, by the Countess of Blessington, &c.; and Twelve large and beautiful Engravings executed under the superintendence of Mr.Charles Heath. Elegantly bound. 21s.

"The Keepsakes retain the attractive features which made it in its day the most splendid and the most admired of all the annuals."  - Britannia.

"The work (The Book of Beauty) is produced in first-rate taste in the illustrative department. The portraits are spirited  compositions; and the volume is encased in a right regal binding, embellished with a very appropriate design." - Illustrated London News.

D.Bogne, 86 Fleet Street

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Dunbar Isadore Heath, aged 31/32. (Called 'Dunnie' by his mother) He married Feb. 22nd, 1848, Emily Mary Harrison, of Hill House, Brading, and had issue two sons, Douglas Leopold and James Dunbar.

His ministerial labours at Brading were active and zealous according to the standard, of the day, and his many acts of personal charity and kindliness greatly endeared him to his people

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11 February 1848
Charles Heath, 6 Seymour Place, to Dawson Turner (Banker)

My Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure of sending per Rail this day India Proofs of the "Book of Beauty" and "Keepsake" plates which I hope you will like - the Book of Beauty had portraits of 12 of the "Queens of England," the name is on each proof.

I hope this will find you and yours in good health and that you have escaped the influenza what almost every one has had in London. I have been confined to the House and five days to my [bed] with a most severe attack. I am not getting better but am as usual in this disorder, very weak.

Business has been as bad as possible all the last Year. I trust we are now going to see better times.

With best wishes believe me my Dear Sir,
Yours most truly,
Charles Heath.

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25 February 1848
Church & State Gazette (London)

Marriages
On the 22nd inst. at Brading, in the Isle of Wight, the Rev.D.I.Heath, vicar of Brading, to Emily Mary, daughter of J.Harrison Esq., of Hill House,Brading.

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Tuesday 16 May 1848
Morning Herald (London)

Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings and Proofs, from the Works published by Mr.Charles Heath. - By Messrs Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St.James's Square, on Saturday, May 27, at One precisely. 

The beautiful Collection of modern Water-colour Drawings and Proofs, from the Illustrated Annuals published by Mr.Charles Heath. The drawings comprise beautiful and highly finished works of -

Allom - Drummond - Hayter - Warren - Cattermole - Herbert - Lami - Wattier - Corbould - Jones - Lake Price - Wright - David - Meadows - Stephanoff.

The engravings comprise sets of Proofs and Impressions from "The Keepsake," "Book of Beauty," "Picturesque Annual," "Gems of Beauty," &c. 

May be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had.

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22 May 1848
Charles Heath, 6 Seymour Place, London to (someone?)

Dear Sir,
The bearer of this is Mr.Varrall, the engraver, who is owing to a long illness in great distress and wishes to apply to the General Benevolent fund for some assistance. Mr Varrall requested me to write this to confirm all the statements in his appeal.

I remain - - Chas. Heath.

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Sunday 25 June 1848
Weekly Chronicle (London)

Bloomsbury County Court - (Saturday) 
The Baronet and the Breeches - Riddle v Sir H.Barron M.P. 
Before D.D.Heath Esq.

This was an action against the defendant, Sir Henry Winstone Barron, Bart., M.P. for Waterford, and residing at No.21 Cavendish Square, brought by the plaintiff, who was late in his service as footman, to recover the sum of £2.5s.6d, wages due, and £1 as compensation for having worn his own clothes instead of liver. 

Plaintiff stated that he entered Sir Henry's service on the 13th of May last, at a salary of 28 guineas a year, with an agreement of a month's warning or a month's wages. 
After being in the house three days, not having engaged to be starved to death, which fate a long stoppage in a situation with such meagre dietary foretold, he gave notice to leave at the month's end. 

On Sunday, the 6th of June, Sir Henry told him he might quit on the Tuesday, and having previously procured another situation he made arrangements to go to it on that day. On Tuesday morning Sir Henry requested him to stop the week, as he was going to have company; but his successor having arrived, he refused, and Sir Henry would not pay him his month's wages, which was the amount he sued for. 

He was to have had two suits of livery a year, but was only provided with an old jacket,and had to wear his own trousers. To go with the carriage to the Drawing Room on the Queen's birthday, he had a dress suit to wear, but immediately on his return was told by Sir Henry to take it off - Sir Henry said that he had offered the plaintiff £1 16s. 6d, which were the wages he considered were due to him up to the Monday night, as he refused to go out with the carriage on the Tuesday the day he left.

As to clothe, there were breeches found him, but he preferred wearing his own trousers - Plaintiff: The breeches Sir Henry speaks of are not fit to be seen; they are musty, discoloured, of neither shape nor make, and have been knocked about Ireland for at leas a quarter of a century. (Laughter). - Sir Henry: Oh, the falsehood! The breeches are not here; but upon my honour as a gentleman they are a most beautiful pair of scarlet . (Increased laughter.) - Judge: We will not enter further into the breeches (Laughter) 

My opinion is that the claim for clothes is not made out; and for the plaintiff's services of three weeks and five days my judgment is £1, 18s. 6d and the costs.

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17 July 1852
Press cutting in Dawson Turner correspondence for Feb.1848.
Extract from - The Times, 17 July 1852

The object of the present proceedings in this suit was to allow the executors of the late Mr.Turner, the Royal Academician, to go in before the Master and prove a bond debt of £1200 executed to him by Mr.Heath, the well-known engraver, previously to 1841.

In that year Mr.Heath arranged to have a deed of composition with his creditors, which as usual, was expressed to apply to all who should come in and sign the deed. Mr.Turner did not sign it, and on being applied to, to receive certain French bills and a snuff box presented to Mr.Heath by the late King of France, Louis Phillip, with an autograph letter in part liquidation of his claim, at first refused, but on its being agreed that the letter should accompany the bills and box, agreed, but the articles were never valued, and the matter went no further.

Subsequently it was said alterations had taken place in the terms of the composition, and now Mr.Turner was said to have been bound by the first deed; whereas it was contended for Mr.Heath's representatives, that what had taken place amounted to a virtual release of Mr.Turnes right under the bond.

Mr.Walker Mr.Bacon, Mr.Chandlers, Mr.Eddis and Mr.W.H.Terrell appeared for the various parties.

The Vice-Chancellor said that there was no evidence before him to support the statement upon which the case was founded. All he could do was to send it back to the Master, leaving the parties to make what the could upon proper evidence.
 

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Saturday 25 November 1848
Derbyshire Courier

Death of Mr.Charles Heath, the Engraver.

This gentleman, whose name has been so long familiar to the public as an artist of no common genius, died on Saturday last after an illness of some duration. He was the son of James Heath, a celebrated engraver of his day.

Sunday 26 November 1848
Bell's Weekly Messenger
Death of Mr.Charles Heath
We have to record the almost sudden death of Mr.Charles Heath, the eminent engraver, which occurred on Friday se'nnight, at his house in Seymour Place, Euston Square. Mr.Heath was the inventor of the "Annual," a close of work which has occasioned a large expenditure in favour of literature, painting and engraving.

 

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Tuesday 28 November 1848
Sussex Advertiser.

Death of Mr.Charles Heath.
We regret to record the almost sudden death of Mr.Charles Heath, the eminent engraver, which occurred on Friday morning, at his house in Seymour Place, Euston Square. 

Mr.Heath's services to art demand more than the brief notice we able to give. He was the inventor of the "Annual," a class of work which has occasioned a larger expenditure in favour of literature, painting, and engraving, during the last 16 years, than any other enterprise whatever, and which has had the still more valuable quality of causing the utmost attainable amount of perfection to be demanded by the public in all works of art now submitted to it.

The idea of the "Annual" was entirely Mr.Heath's, and he has carried it out since 1832 in a variety of ways and with the utmost energy, skill and success.

Mr Heath had also been engaged for nearly 40 years in introducing to the public the very best engravings which have appeared during that time. Talent is seldom hereditary, but in this instance the rule is to be departed from, Mr.Heath having not only equalled, but exceeded, the merit of his father, who was esteemed the best engraver of his day.

There are few departments of art in which the loss of Mr.Heath will not be felt as that of a shrewd originator, an active and enterprising man of business, and a liberal paymaster, while the effect of his efforts for the general prosperity of the artistic republic will always be recognised and appreciated by its members.

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Thursday 30 November 1848
Kent Herald.

Fine Arts
The Late Mr.Charles Heath.
Mr.Charles Heath, the eminent engraver, known by the Books of Beauty which bear his name and the costly Annuals which he conducted, died on the 18th inst. in his 64th year.

He was the son of James Heath, eminent in the same art, and well known to the print-collector by his 'Death of Major Pearson,' after Copley - his 'Riots in Broat Street,' after Wheatley - his full length of General Washington, after Stewart - and his book-plates after Stothard and Smirke for Harrison's Novelists' Library.

The father laid the foundation for that fine taste in the embellishment of books which his son carried to greater perfection. Mr.Charles Heath excelled in small plates; as in those which he executed after Newton - and in the beautiful engravings of Lady Peel, after Sir Thomas Lawrence.

He was not so successful when his plates were of a large size; as in the 'Europa' after Hilton - where that dexturous laying of lines for which hew was so distinguished is somewhat insipid and fails to compensate for the bolder cuttings for which Strange and Sharpe and Burnett and Raimbach are so pre-eminently distinguished. 

Mr.Doo and Mr.Watt were pupils of Mr.Charles Heath; and in those large and rarer excellencies which contribute so much to the beauty of a line engraving of a size larger than a book-plate have certainly excelled their master. 

Mr.Heath, besides being eminent for the power of his own hand, may be said to have exercised a marked influence over his own department of Art. In his hands that species of serial artistic publication known as the "Annual" - which, originating with other, he was nevertheless one of the earliest to copy - has survived to the present day. Such publications had their use in familiarizing the general mind with the productions of Art and in making the latter accessible to moderate means.

To balance their appeal to somewhat trivial tastes, it must not be forgotten, either, that they called into action the talents of the most celebrated engravers at a time when the engraver was too little in request - and led the way to the long host of illustrated books which have finally supplanted them all except the publications of Mr.Heath. 

This action upon art - in the praise of which, as we have said, Mr.Heath must share - led, itself, to that healthy re-action which has followed a surfeit of such sweetmeats. The engraver is now more profitably employed, for his reputation as well as - it is to be hoped - for his pocket.

Mr.Heath has quitted the scene at a time when the class taste which he did so much to promote is all but extinct. In all that relates to the getting-up of these periodicals he displayed ability - and in his relations with his brother artists liberality and good faith. 

Of late years, we believe his own hand wrought little: - his time having been too much devoted to the necessary arrangements for the many publications on which he was engaged. His extensive undertakings led him to employ many pupils: - and as his works still increased in number, he formed at last another manufactory of artists on almost as extensive a scale as the Messrs.Finden.
Mr.Heath has left a large family to lament his loss. One son is favourably known as an engineer; and another is already eminent in the same line of Art in which his father and grandfather acquired their well-earned reputations.
Atheneaum. 

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Friday 8 December 1848
Morning Advertiser.

Bloomsbury County Court, Dec.7.
Before D.D.Heath Esq., 

Wilson v Purdy
This was an action brought by Lieutenant Wilson, of the 11th Hussars, against the defendant, John Purdy, horse-dealer, living in Clipstone Street, to recover the sum of £17.10s. money had and received.

Mr.Dodd stated that the plaintiff, Mr.Wharton Wilson, was an officer of the 11th Hussars, of which regiment the Earl of Cardogan was Colonel. By the rules of the regiment no officer was allowed to introduce a horse into the ranks, until it had been examined, approved of, and passed by the Colonel. 

On the 10th of October, the plaintiff being in want of a charger, and seeing advertised in the newspapers one which he thought would suit his purpose, went to the address mentioned in Howland Mews, a stable belonging to the defendant. It was then six o'clock in the evening, and the defendant was not there; but his servant showed the plaintiff the horse, which was a grey gelding. From what he then saw of the horse he liked it very well, yet, as he was not sure it would be passed by the Earl of Cardigan, he wound not purchase it then, but take it home to Hounslow to be examined. 

The servant of the defendant said he could not let the horse go unless he had a deposit of half the purchase-money, upon which the plaintiff said he would in a day or two send his servant with £17.10s., one moiety of the price of the horse, and to bring it to the barracks at Hounslow, upon the understanding that, if the horse was not passed by the colonel, the whole of the money was to be returned.

In a few days the plaintiff sent his servant to pay the deposit and bring the horse, but he returned without the horse and brought a piece of paper the defendant had given him, not an acknowledgement of the sum paid on the conditions already stated, but a receipt of a sum paid on account of £35.

 
The defendant also sent a message that he could not send the horse until the other half had been paid. The plaintiff applied several times for the return of the money or the fulfilment of the agreement, but the defendant refused, and the plaintiff was now obliged to sue for the amount.

A verdict having been given for the plaintiff, with costs, immediate payment was ordered.
 

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Saturday 30 December 1848
Saint James's Chronicle

The Gentleman's Magazine for January 1849, being the First Number of a New Volume, contains, among others, the following articles:-

Barham's Life of Theodore Hook - Original Letters of William III and Louis XIV - The Museum Disneianum (with several engravings) - Notes made in Buckinghamshire, 1848 - Piozziana, No.1., &c. - With Review of New Publications, Literary and Scientific Intelligence, Antiquarian Intelligence, Historical Chronicle and Obituary, including Memoirs of Ibrihim Pasha, Viscount Melbourne, Right Hon.Charles Buller, Bishop Mant, Sir John Barrow, Isaac Jermy Esq., W.H.Miller Esq., and Mr.Charles Heath. 

Price 2s. 6d. Nichols and Son, Parliament Street.

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1849

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