A visit to the camp [graphic]

Description

Title: A visit to the camp [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1811?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is being shaved outside a tent as the group looks on.
Description: Title from captions below images.
Two designs on one plate, each individually titled.
Printmaker and questionable date of publication from description in Grego of design on lower half of plate.
Plate measurement from later impression in bound volume.
Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London], 1836?], page 76.
Reduced copies of nos. 6727 and 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, v. 4.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.9 x 25.3 cm.
Imperfect; lower half of sheet trimmed away, leaving only the upper design of two printed from the same plate.
Artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x, p. 115.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Barbers
Equipment
Military camps
Military uniforms
British
Riding habits
Soldiers
Tents
Umbrellas
Subjects: Barbers
Equipment
Military camps
Military uniforms > British
Riding habits
Soldiers > British
Tents
Umbrellas
England > 1811
England > London > 1811

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