A militia meeting [graphic]

Description

Title: A militia meeting [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [23 May 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
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.
Embossed stamp of publisher in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; February 1961.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.3 x 39 cm, on sheet 27 x 42 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper)
Embossed stamps
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Military uniforms
Dogs
Maps
Subjects: Military uniforms
Dogs
Maps
England > 1773
England > London > 1799

Access: Public
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