Guard-room tactics, bugs in danger, or, A volunteer corps in action [graphic].

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Title: Guard-room tactics, bugs in danger, or, A volunteer corps in action [graphic].
Alternative Title: Volunteer corps in action
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [23 July 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 23d 1798 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Social satire; four soldiers in uniform with bayonets, shooting at bugs on the wall, and uttering threats, including "I'll lodge a bullet in his Thorax"; one walks off, smiling, a bug speared on the end of his bayonet, saying "There is a Trophy of my Victory. I wish we were in Ireland."; around the walls are rows of bayonets.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Military: volunteers -- Military uniforms: Light Horse -- Weapons: bayonetted muskets -- Guard-rooms -- Vermin.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with date 1797 below.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.6 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 27 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Watermarks (Paper) 1797
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Military uniforms
Rifles
Bayonets
Insects
Interiors
Subjects: Military uniforms
Rifles
Bayonets
Insects
Interiors
England > 1798
England > London > 1798
1797

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