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Yeomanry cavalry!!

Yeomanry cavalry!!
 1796

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
30.0 × 25.8 cm (image) 34.1 × 47.1 cm (plate) 48.0 × 34.7 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Krumbhaar 1335
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Woo’dward delin.t (t in superscript)
printed in ink l.c.: Pub.d (d in superscript above . ) March 7.th (th in superscript above . ) 1796 by S.W. Fores N.o (o in superscript above . ) Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street_ Folios of Caracaturs lent out for the evening. / YEOMANRY CAVALRY!!
printed in ink u.r.: Vol 1 Pl.8.
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.r.: Are you ſure John the Horſe / is as quiet as when I laſt rode / him_he looks very wild about / the eyes, and I firmly believe he / knows I have not mounted him / Since the laſt general Election … (6 paragraphs of text) … D_n the Horſe he is / more afraid of our Gun / than myſelf
Accession Number
1573.32-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Military and Warfare
Subjects (specific)
captions caricatures cartoons (humorous images) cavalries equestrians horse (species) military officers
Movements
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)