"Major-General Lord Cathcart stands stiffly in profile to the left. His features are blunt and ugly. He wears court dress with a military cast, heavily gold laced, and a long pigtail. His right hand rests on the head of a gold-headed cane. A figured carpet and bare wall complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 11th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"George III walks in back view with an awkward shuffle, his head turned in profile to the left to greet a tall general who bows. On the right another officer waits, hat in hand, for recognition. They are Lord Cathcart (1755-1843), then major-general, see BMSat 9564, and General David Dundas (under whom Cathcart had served in Holland in 1794-5), see BMSat 9026. Above the King's head is a scroll: 'Medio tutissimus ibis'. A semicircle of loyal and provincial subjects, chiefly ladies, stretches across the design, facing the King. In the foreground on the extreme left and right are an officer in back view and a (caricatured) elderly man in top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Walking staves -- Military uniforms: general's uniform -- Literature: quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, N. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820, and Cathcart, William Schaw Cathcart, Earl, 1755-1843
