Hannah Snell born at Worcester, 1723 / [graphic]

Description

Title: Hannah Snell born at Worcester, 1723 / [graphic]
Creator: Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor: Phelps, Richard, approximately 1710-1785, artist.
Published / Created: [1750]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait, half-length, directed to right, in military uniform, eyes to front, holding baton under her left arm; after Phelps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Six lines of biographical information engraved below title: Inlisted herself by the name of James Gray in General Guise's Regiment then at Carlisle 1745, where she receiv'd 500 lashes, deserted from thence and went to Portsmouth, where she inlisted in Colonel Fraser's Regiment of Marines, went in Admiral Boscawen's Squadron to the East Indies, at the Siege of Pundicherry where she receiv'd 12 shot, one in her groin eleven in her legs; 1750 came to England without the least discovery of her sex, and on her petitioning His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, he was pleas'd to order her a pension of £30 a year.
"Price 1s.-6d."--Lower left corner.
Window mounted to: 42 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; February 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 32.6 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English