Hero's recruiting at Kelsey's, or, Guard-Day at St. James's [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Hero's recruiting at Kelsey's, or, Guard-Day at St. James's [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Guard Day at St. James's
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [9 June 1797]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. June 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"Two officers on high stools face each other at the counter of a fruit-shop and confectioner's. One (right), tall, lank, and elderly (identified as Captain Birch, see BMSat 9037), devours a jelly; empty jelly-glasses strew the counter beside him. The other, a mere child, his legs dangling, eats from a large cornet of 'Sugar-plumbs'. A buxom woman behind the counter brings a tray of jellies in glasses. In the doorway (right) a third officer, extremely fat and grotesquely knock-kneed, stands with his hands clasped behind him watching a coroneted coach driving past with two footmen in feathered hats standing behind. The officers wear large plumed cocked hats, spurred jack-boots, and sabres. Each pane of the large shop window (left) is decoratively filled with fruit, jars, jelly-glasses, &c. A pottle of strawberries and a partly peeled orange lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Shops: Kelsey's fruit shop -- Food: jellies -- Sugar plums -- Exotic fruits -- Capt. Birch, fl. 1797. - Provenance
- Old Print Shop ; 1961.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 37 x 27 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 797.06.09.02+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 8141213
- Object ID (OID)
- 15813377
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