"A fat 'cit' is being drilled by an officer in his shop, to the admiration of his household. A drummer beats his drum. In the background are large jars of snuff."--British Museum catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: Soldiers recruiting., Plate numbered "No. 5" above title., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: tobacco and snuff shop -- Military uniforms -- Shopkeepers -- Dishes: tea service., and Title etched below image.
"Scene at the door of a rustic inn. Two soldiers (seated) and a handsome girl drink punch together. She stands, wearing the cocked hat and sword-belt of an officer who holds her hand; a child plays with the sword. An old woman chalks up the score. A bugler (left) rides off with a led horse. The sign is the 'King's Head', a profile portrait of George III."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: He won't be a soldier., Plate numbered "No. 1" above title., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: inns -- Serving maids -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Soldiers: bugler -- Children -- Inns: King's Head -- Pictures: portrait of George III -- Emblems: horseshoe., and Title etched below image.
"Two sailors inside the Victory, discussing the fate of Nelson's body; one stands at left, weeping, his hat in his hand, saying, 'Do you know Jack they say as how they mean to put his Honors remains into another ship--- Now I think it d-d hard that as he kept us while he was alive - that we should not be allow'd to keep him now he is dead'. The other sailor sits at right with his arm on Nelson's coffin, which is on a bier under a window, a sailor's hat with a ribbon lettered 'Victory' on top of it; the sitting sailor holds up a cutlass and replies, 'Make yourself easy about that Ben--- here am I watch over the coffin, and depend upon it he never stirs from the Victory, till he arrives in his native country, where there will be plenty to revere, and guard his precious memory, for his monument will be erected in the heart of every Briton.' A cannon behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Nelson, Horatio Nelson,--Viscount,--1758-1805--Death and burial., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Cannons., Coffins., Sailors--British., and Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805.
Eight horizontal strips, each with a publication statement below aquatint border., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Publication information etched below bottom strip., Text below top strip: London, Pub. 1 Decr. 1799, at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand where daily are published ..., and Title devised by curator.