print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1848,1221.42
- Title
- Object: An Officer of the 15th, or Kings Hussars. Taken from life
- Description
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An officer, with whisker and moustache stands in profile to the left., his (gloved) r. hand resting on a tasselled cane holding his sabre in the left hand. The dress resembles that of BMSat 10629. ? 1806
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1806 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 335 millimetres
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Width: 222 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Identified as Major Francis Forrester.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1848
- Acquisition notes
- 1848,1221.1 to 57 were all purchased for the BM by Carpenter against a refund from the Trustees.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1848,1221.42