"A series of isolated figures, single or in pairs, arranged in two rows, each with an explanatory couplet relating to the news of the capture of Seringapatam, on the authority of a letter received at the India House on 15 May from Bristol dated 'Vestal, at sea'. [1] A grinning man stands full face, with raised shoulders, inscribed,'I cannot express how delighted I am, To hear we have taken Seringapatam'[2] Thurlow, tall and thin, nearsightedly reads a paper with a grin: 'The Chancellor look'd like a frolicksome Ram To hear we had taken Seringapatam.'[3] Dundas, holding a cane, runs in profile to the right; behind him is a small table on which is a bottle, &c.: 'Dundass fled from bottle, from chicken, and ham To Windsor to tell of Seringapatam.'[4] Pitt stands, chapeau-bras, in profile to the left, a cake in one hand, a jam-pot in the other:'Will Pitt eat a cake with some rasberry jam When told we had taken Seringapatam.' ,..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below images., Attribution to Newton in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement above title: Just published by Holland, three prints on the slave trade ..., Design consists of fourteen single or paired figures in two rows, each with two lines of verse etched above., and Watermark: Curteis & Sons.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 18, 1792, by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa (India) and India.
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Military uniforms, and Soldiers
A soldier, worried look upon his face, leads his pregnant lady by the arm through a rural scene
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on uniform., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Poverty, Pregnant women, and Soldiers
A light infantryman dressed in full uniform executes a motion with his flintlock musket. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand slides back to the small of the stock holding it with the three last fingers & keeping the cartridge upright between the forefinger & thumb
Description:
Title from print later published in a volme by Rowlandson., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Design in two rows of six sections, with 11 figures demonstrating an exercise for the halberd, fortifications in the background, at lower right three halberds, a pike and flag tied together ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Companion print to: Manual for saluting with the half-pike., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print: Captain Grose asserts, that in this book only, the exercises of the Halberd is displayed. Nichols's Biographical anecdotes &c, third edit, p. 439., and On page 45 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
Subject (Topic):
Arms & armament, Forts & fortifications, Saluting, Soldiers, and British
"Design in two rows of eight sections, with 15 figures demonstrating a salute with the half-pike; at top, the title in an oval decorated with arms, and figures numbered 1-7, below, figures numbered 1-8 ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Caption in the oval at the left: The several postures of [the] salute wth [sic] [the] half-pike. Describ'ed from order & on [the] long march, as it is practis'd in [the] Artillery Company of [the ] City of London. By Jon. Blackwell adjutant and clerk., Companion print to: Exercise for the Halberd., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 439. Blackwell's figure in all, 26. Note below print: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort., and On page 44 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.
A light infrantryman dressed in full uniform executes a drill with his flintlock. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand is brought sharp to seize the flintlock at the top of the left shoulder keeping the body square & elbows close
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing and later published in a volme by Rowlandson. and For further information, consult library staff.