print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1866,0407.922
- Title
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Object: Uniformes Anglais
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Series: Le Bon Genre
- Description
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Four officers stand in a close group, facing each other. One (left) wears a plumed cocked hat, but his uniform is covered by a long fur-trimmed coat, showing only the bottom of trousers. A hussar officer in back view wears an elaborately braided, fur-bordered tight jacket with trousers and shako. An officer wearing a magnificent (Scots) feathered bonnet and plaid (not tartan) over his shoulder wears tight trousers. The fourth is partly concealed, but wears cocked hat, knee-breeches, and dark coat (with epaulets) reaching below the knee. In the background two officers stand together; both wear plumed shakos, but otherwise their dress is quasi-civilian; one wears white waistcoat, open tail-coat, short trousers tight at the knee; the other a long overcoat. Only the Scottish officer wears a sword. The foreground group, the fourth figure omitted, is copied by Grego in a plate to Gronow's 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii. 324, 'Souvenirs of the Army of Occupation . . .', cf. Nos. 12386, 12634.
Plate numbered 70.
September 1814
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres
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Width: 226 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', IX, 1949)
Plate from 'Le Bon Genre' [the Print Room series lacks Nos. 98, 103, 104; there is a supplementary series, Nos. 105-15, of which Nos. 106, 107, 111, 112 are in the Print Room], 104 plates published between c. 1801 and 1817. Colas, No. 2238. Coloured reproductions of the original water-colours for 39 of the designs (eight of which were not engraved), ed. Charles Martyne, were issued in a portfolio, Paris, 1930. Colas, No. 2242. From these the attributions above are taken.
(Supplementary information)
A duplicate of 1861-10-12-321
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,0407.922