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- Creator:
- Watson, Thomas, 1750-1781, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1780]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a group of new recruits being drilled by two soldiers outside an inn called 'The Old Fortune', the sign showing a one-legged old soldier, while a young woman sells vegetables from a basket; the head of a grinning man appears behind her below the inn sign."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.47., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "2" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Drilling recruits -- Recruits -- Sergeant -- Signboards: 'The Old Fortune' (Of War) -- Street scenes., and Mounted on page 13 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Saint James's Palace (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Military officers, Soldiers, Recruiting & enlistment, Taverns (Inns), and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Recruits [graphic]