Any thing will do for an officer [graphic]

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Title: Any thing will do for an officer [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Abstract: Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description: Title etched above imprint and below text.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Five lines of text below image and above title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him.
Publisher's statement below image: Prints & drawings lent on the plan of a circulating library, folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cannons
Dwarfs
Military uniforms
British
Swords
Subjects: Cannons
Dwarfs
Military uniforms > British
Swords
England > 1796
England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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