A militia meeting [graphic]Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker[23 May 1799]eng"Satire on volunteers: an officer and another man sit at a table while a soldier presents two potential - but unprepossessing - recruits, the second man shabbily dressed; behind them a large dog menaces a smaller one; on the wall a map and a portrait of a general."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle from text below image.Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 2 January 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4759 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge leaving thread margin.