• Any thing will do for an officer

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Call number:
  • D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00079
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 38.3 x 24.4 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Inscribed in plate: "Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put in the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another.
  • Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson fecit".
Publisher:
  • [London] : [s.n.], 1796/01/01.
Subject:
  • Caricature
  • Great Britain. Army—Officers—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1796
References:
  • Grego II, p. 398 (1806)
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00079
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/mg74qv22f