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1. Guard-room tactics, bugs in danger, or, A volunteer corps in action [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [23 July 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.07.23.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Social satire; four soldiers in uniform with bayonets, shooting at bugs on the wall, and uttering threats, including "I'll lodge a bullet in his Thorax"; one walks off, smiling, a bug speared on the end of his bayonet, saying "There is a Trophy of my Victory. I wish we were in Ireland."; around the walls are rows of bayonets.."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Volunteer corps in action
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: volunteers -- Military uniforms: Light Horse -- Weapons: bayonetted muskets -- Guard-rooms -- Vermin., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with date 1797 below.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 23d 1798 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, Rifles, Bayonets, Insects, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Guard-room tactics, bugs in danger, or, A volunteer corps in action [graphic].
