"Sir David Dundas on horseback, in profile to the left, drills a line of cavalry at some distance. He holds a gold-headed cane in place of a whip and sits his horse in the manner of a bad rider. His foot is thrust forward so that his boot projects beyond the animal's chest (cf. Nos. 7233, 7242); he holds the curb rein only, and this is merely placed between his hand and the cane; the snaffle lies on the horse's neck. The animal is clumsy, with shaggy fetlocks. Under the saddle is a leopard-skin. Dundas is on rising ground above the level of the soldiers who are drawn up facing some tents."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Earlier state of No. 11256 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature and imprint. Printmaker and imprint from impression in the New York Historical Society collection., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Military camps -- Military manoeuvres: cavalry drill -- Military uniforms: Quartermaster general, Horse Guards., and Mounted to 40 x 48 cm., matted to 44 x 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Dundas, tall and elegant, stands directed to the left, right hand on a cane, left on his scabbard. He wears a cocked hat with side-peaks, with loop, cockade, and small plume, double-breasted uniform, coat with star, boots of Hessian pattern, a sword-belt under, and a sash over his coat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir David Dundas, KB, Commander in Chief
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 74 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820
Subject (Topic):
Generals, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords
"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
