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

Copyright Date:

Sepr. 2d, 1773.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm

Notes:

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.

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.

Variant Titles:

City trained bands recruiting serjeant
City trainbands recruiting serjeant

Topics:

Daggers & swords.
Hats.
Militias.
Peg legs.
Rifles.
Spears.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 43 top

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1773.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1773.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

13895043

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37108a

OID:

16737576

PID:

digcoll:4711152