"Three grotesque and ill-matched soldiers charge rapidly and fiercely down the pavement. Their bayonets threaten three women who flee in terror, only legs, petticoats, and an upraised arm being visible on the extreme right. One soldier, very thin and ragged, wears a busby, the next, who is fat, wears a huge cocked hat with a damaged brim, the third, who is small, wears a peaked helmet with a spiky plume. The uniform coats with epaulettes are worn over frilled shirts and ragged breeches. Behind the three march others of the company, wearing busbies, and holding their muskets against their shoulders. In the background shop-windows are freely sketched."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
St. George's Volunteers charging the French after clearing the Ring in Hyde Park ...
Description:
Title etched below image; words 'the French' scored through and replaced with the words 'down Bond Street,' the latter being inserted above the line using a caret., Temporary local subject terms: Volunteer corps: St. George's Volunteers -- Bond Street., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
