"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated waist (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7352). He places one toe on the body of a fish-woman who lies on her back, her legs much exposed. His outstretched right leg is poised above a crouching woman who tries to protect her barrow of vegetables. Two men holding muskets precede the officer; one tramples on the face of an infant. The officer is followed by a man carrying a pike, behind whom march six soldiers in double file carrying muskets with fixed bayonets. All march ruthlessly, eyes front, regardless of the havoc they are causing. A porter lies on the ground clutching a broken wooden case faintly inscribed 'Mr . . . Silversmith'; from it pour plate and jewels. The porter's knee is badly damaged, and his knot has been knocked from his shoulders. A milliner or courtesan lies on her back clutching the hair of a barber who clasps her leg. On the extreme right a prostrate woman tries to protect her infant, and a newsboy with his horn and a sheaf of the 'Morning Herald' tries to escape from the trampling soldiers. Other victims between the soldiers and the wall are a woman with a crutch, a shoeblack, a man with a tray of rolls. A pair of beseeching hands and two female legs (right) waving in the air add to the turmoil, which is accentuated by the writhing forms of the fish which fall from the fishwoman's basket. The background is formed by the wall of a stone building with two elaborately barred niches, and by the window of a silversmith's shop (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Abuses: military marches, 1787 -- Newspapers: Morning Herald -- Architectural details: barred niches -- Trampled victims -- Guns: muskets with fixed bayonets -- Protection of the Bank, 1787 -- Military march, double file -- Children: abused infant -- Shops: exterior of a silversmith shop -- Silversmith's box -- Vegetable sellers -- Fishwomen -- Allusion to the Strand -- Allusion to Cheapside -- Allusion to Fleet Street -- Porter's knot -- Newsboys -- Milliners., and Watermark: Hall & [...]plin 1804 on the right side of sheet; Strasburg bend on the left.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
"A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Transmutation of sexes
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 76. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Visit to the camp ; Recruits
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Restrike. For an earlier issue of the plate, published ca. 1811, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1801., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Top image is a reduced copy of no. 6727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Bottom image is a reduced copy of no. 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 214., and On leaf 76 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
A version of British Museum satire no. 4765, in reverse. A narrow design with les sky and slightly less ground. Half of the dog on the left is cut off in the design. Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. The civilian gentleman have walking sticks tucked under their arms, and one carries a quizzing glass. The short, stout lady wears a large hooded cloak and carries a large umbrella
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. The civilian gentleman have walking sticks tucked under their arms, and one carries a quizzing glass. The short, stout lady wears a large hooded cloak and carries a large umbrella
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "1" in upper left corner., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1779, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is being shaved outside a tent as the group looks on.
Description:
Title from captions below images., Two designs on one plate, each individually titled., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from description in Grego of design on lower half of plate., Plate measurement from later impression in bound volume., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London], 1836?], page 76., Reduced copies of nos. 6727 and 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, v. 4., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.9 x 25.3 cm., Imperfect; lower half of sheet trimmed away, leaving only the upper design of two printed from the same plate., and Artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is being shaved outside a tent as the group looks on.
Description:
Title from captions below images., Two designs on one plate, each individually titled., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from description in Grego of design on lower half of plate., Plate measurement from later impression in bound volume., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London], 1836?], page 76., Reduced copies of nos. 6727 and 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, v. 4., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.4 x 24.4 cm., Imperfect; upper half of sheet trimmed away, leaving only the lower design of two printed from the same plate., and Artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Swords -- Female Costume: 1805 -- Guns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Soldiers, and French
A soldier with a sword in his right hand has his left hand under the chin of a young lady who holds his gun in her left arm. Another soldier grins from behind a chair on which sits a drum. A monkey sits on a music book on a stool
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '145' in lower right corner., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Robert Sayer, Chart, Map, & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Drums, Parlors, and Pets