The city train'd bands recruiting serjeant [graphic].

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Title: The city train'd bands recruiting serjeant [graphic].
Alternative Title: City trained bands recruiting serjeant
City trainbands recruiting serjeant
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: Sepr. 2d, 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. accorg. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "Social satire: two men, one with a wooden leg, the other a dwarf, standing before a civilian seated at a table with sword and pike."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Tricorne -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Wooden legs -- Male costume: Greatcoats -- Halberds -- Gaiters -- City trained bands -- Recruiting serjeants -- Guns.
First of two plates on leaf 43.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 28 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 43. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Militias
Hats
Peg legs
Daggers & swords
Rifles
Spears
Subjects: Militias
Hats
Peg legs
Daggers & swords
Rifles
Spears
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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