Half pay officers

Description

Title: Half pay officers
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: Print depicts the heads of five officers wearing tricorne hats trimmed with braid. The figure on the left foreground has a quizzing glass
Description: Title etched below image.
Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Officers' uniforms.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 10.1 x 17 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 19.0 cm.
One of two plates printed on same sheet.
Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.2 x 18 cm, on sheet 14.5 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Aquatints England London 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching and aquatint with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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