Lobsters for the ladies, i.e., Jessamin soldiers, or, A veteran corps going on duty [graphic].

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Title: Lobsters for the ladies, i.e., Jessamin soldiers, or, A veteran corps going on duty [graphic].
Alternative Title: Veteran corps going on duty
Jessamin soldiers
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 2d 1798 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title from caption below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening.
Cf. No. 9221 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Temporary local subject terms: Military: volunteers -- Military uniforms: Light Horse -- Weapons: bayonetted muskets -- Umbrellas -- Literature: Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy -- Slang: lobsters (soldiers) -- Slang: Jessamin soldiers -- London: view from North.
Watermark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28 x 44 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1798
England > London > 1798

Access: Public
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