An old soldier in uniform carrying a cudgel importunes a clergyman for alms, without success; a broadside with thirty lines of engraved verse in two columns, containing a dialogue between the soldier and the pluralist
Description:
Caption title below image., All engraved., Copy of a print by Tim Bobbin, published by Darly in 1762. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print is an enlarged copy of no. 3994 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by M. Darly, facing New Round Court, the Strand
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1759, Beggars, Clergy, Military uniforms, Pluralism (Social sciences), and Veterans
Caption title below image, above verses., All engraved., Originally published by Darly in 1762. See Stephens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered '30' in upper left corner., Later state, with plate number added. Cf. No. 3994 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by M. Darly, facing New Round Court, the Strand
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1759, Beggars, Clergy, Military uniforms, Pluralism (Social sciences), and Veterans
