Military portraits, or, A BRrace [sic] of heroes [graphic].Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker[30 July 1798]engAn officer with a high plumed hat and in the uniform of the St. James's volunteer sits on thin, tired-looking horse in a parade ground. He holds only one of the horse's reins and a drawn sabre over his right shoulder. Despite his attire, his demeanour is unmilitary, his posture and facial expression languid. A crowd of people watch from a pavilion in the background on the left and from behind a paling on the right. The scene is a reference to the presentation of colours by the Duchess of York to the St. James Volunteers on 5 July; the colonel was Baron AmherstTitle from item.Attributed to Ansell by British Museum catalogue.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Caption below title within image, a reference to the cockney militia officer Major Sturgeon in Samuel Foote's Mayor of Garratt: Sarjeant I desire you will back upon that old woman facing the front rank the glare of her red cloak will put the gentlemen out.Caption below image: O such marchings and counter-marchings from St. James's to Tottenham Court from Tottenham Court to St. James!!!Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatur [sic] lent out for the evening.