Recruiting serjeant and contented mates [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Recruiting serjeant and contented mates [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Recruiting sergeant and contented mates
- Creator
- Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created
- published as the act directs 1st Jany 1780.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"A thin man wearing a coat with military facings, draws after him (right to left.) a small four-wheeled carriage, similar to a bath-chair or perambulator, inscribed Cox Heath. In it sits a child with a doll. A dog stands at her feet barking at the man who draws the carriage, who has a bundle strapped to his back, apparently containing hay. At the back of the carriage in the place of a footman stands a ragged dwarfish man. On the farther side of the carriage is a recruiting sergeant playing a fife. In the foreground (right) a fat woman, the wife of the man drawing the carriage, walks along carrying a basket containing bottles and a large umbrella in her right hand; a musket is tucked under her left arm. She and the three men all wear oak-leaves in their hats. In the distance the tents of the camp are indicated. An inscription beneath the title has been cut off. One of a number of satires on the militia and the camp of Coxheath, see BMSat 5523, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark. - Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 33 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 780.01.01.01.2+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Etchings England London 1780 - Material
- etching ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England
- Subject (Topic)
-
Military camps
Baby carriages
Clothing & dress - Subjects
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Military camps > England > 1780
Baby carriages
Clothing & dress > England > 1780
England > 1780
England > London > 1780
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 6726622
- Object ID (OID)
- 10723357