Recruits [graphic]

Description

Title: Recruits [graphic]
Creator: Watson, Thomas, 1750-1781, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Satire: a group of new recruits being drilled by two soldiers outside an inn called 'The Old Fortune', the sign showing a one-legged old soldier, while a young woman sells vegetables from a basket; the head of a grinning man appears behind her below the inn sign."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.47.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered "2" in upper left corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Military: Drilling recruits -- Recruits -- Sergeant -- Signboards: 'The Old Fortune' (Of War) -- Street scenes.
Mounted on page 13 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.8 x 32 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Stipple engravings England London 1780
Etchings England London 1780
Material: stipple engraving and etching in sepia ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic): Military uniforms
British
Military officers
Soldiers
Recruiting & enlistment
Taverns (Inns)
Signs (Notices)
Subjects: Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Military uniforms > British
Military officers
Soldiers
Recruiting & enlistment
Taverns (Inns)
Signs (Notices)
England > 1780
England > London > 1780
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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