- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.05.23.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 state
- Description:
- Title 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., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1795., and Embossed stamp of publisher in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, Dogs, and Maps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A militia meeting [graphic]
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