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1. Beating up for fencibles [graphic]
- Creator:
- Stewart, Graham, -1786, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.155
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Outside a country tavern, a recruiting officer with a sword in his right hand holds up a purse in his left, facing right before 4 grotesquely drawn long-haired yokels who grin foolishly at the prospect. Behind the officer stands a drummer wearing a grenadier's cap on which is inscribed the words "War for ever".
- Description:
- Title from item., Place of publication suggested by engraver's name, possibly identifiable with Graham Stewart the wood-engraver who died in 1786 (cf. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish artists)., Date based on that suggested for no. 5796 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Title in the British Museum catalogue: Beating up for recruits, originally designed by Robert Dighton.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Recruiting & enlistment, Military uniforms, British, Hats, and Drums
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beating up for fencibles [graphic]
2. The lovely Miss L-ws-n The hardy commander. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.17
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Miss Lawson and Hardy commander
- Description:
- Title from item., T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., and Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1776. Cf. No. 5347 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. Originally published in Town and country magazine.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by T. Walker No. 79 Dame Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hardy, Charles, Sir, 1716?-1780,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The lovely Miss L-ws-n The hardy commander. [graphic]
