Military portraits, or, A BRrace [sic] of heroes [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. July 30th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
[1798]

Physical Description:

1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 33.7 x 38.2 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 7, no. 9239

Notes:

Attributed to Ansell by George.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Caption below title within image, a reference to the cockney militia officer Major Sturgeon in Samuel Foote's Mayor of Garratt: Sarjeant I desire you will back upon that old woman facing the front rank the glare of her red cloak will put the gentlemen out.
Caption below image: O such marchings and counter-marchings from St. James's to Tottenham Court from Tottenham Court to St. James!!!
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatur [sic] lent out for the evening.
Walter Schatzki ; 1961.
Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.

Abstract:

An officer with a high plumed hat and in the uniform of the St. James's volunteer sits on thin, tired-looking horse in a parade ground. He holds only one of the horse's reins and a drawn sabre over his right shoulder. Despite his attire, his demeanour is unmilitary, his posture and facial expression languid. A crowd of people watch from a pavilion in the background on the left and from behind a paling on the right. The scene is a reference to the presentation of colours by the Duchess of York to the St. James Volunteers on 5 July; the colonel was Baron Amherst.

Variant Titles:

Brrace of heroes
Brace of heroes

Associated Names:

Ansell, Charles, b. 1752 [Printmaker]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
Military parades & ceremonies
Military uniforms
Pavilions

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1798
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1798

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

798.07.30.01+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

8079240

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09285

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10941206

PID:

digcoll:950828