illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1849,1208.599-633
- Description
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'A picturesque representation of the naval, military, and miscellaneous costumes of Great Britain, in thirty-three coloured plates. By John Augustus Atkinson. With a descriptive esay on the subject of each plate in English and French' (London: William Miller) n.d. [1807]; containing 33 hand-coloured etchings by Atkinson showing military men in costume and scenes of daily life:
Foot guards
Baggage Waggon
Post captain
Highlanders
Cottage girls
Hackney coach
Barrow women
Troops watering horses
Green cart
Artillery men
The fisherman
Getting up a kedge anchor
Artillery on a march
Launching a dover cutter
Dover pilot boat
Heaving the lead
Sand boy
Life guards
Light dragoons
Mail coach
Tandem
Husbandmen
Men of war getting under weigh
Sailors
Rigged lighter
Gravesend boat
Ale house door
Skaiting
Watermen
Riflemen
Soldiers drilling
Farriers shed
Carriers waggon
Together with dedication to King Alexander I of Russia and preface. Bound in red leather, with raised bands and gold lettering at the spine, marbled endpapers and edges.
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 470 millimetres (approx. size of each sheet)
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Width: 320 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The registration numbers on this volume include only the odd numbers between 599 and 633 included.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A picturesque representation of the naval, military, and miscellaneous costumes of Great Britain
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,1208.599-633
