Sadlers flying artillery to protect cavalry either in advancing or retreating / [graphic]

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Title: Sadlers flying artillery to protect cavalry either in advancing or retreating / [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann and Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [3 September 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Sept. 3d, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand
Description: Title from item
One of two extra folding plates from: Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs. Ackermann, 1798.
Below title: Dedicated to the Right Honble. Wm. Windham, Secretary at War.
"A piece of flying artillery and a fusee, on a new and curious principle were, on the King's birth-day, presented by Mr. Sadler, of Buckingham Gate, to Captain Rolleston, for the Pimlico Volunteers."--The Sporting Magazine, or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf the Chase ..., v. 12, 1798, p. 167.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Guns: artillery -- Carriages.
Mounted.
Provenance: Sanders; March 1960.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Aquatints England London 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching & aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1798
England > London > 1798

Access: Public
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