print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4724
- Title
- Object: Count de Rochambeau French general of the land forces in America
- Description
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A burlesque of Rochambeau's army. The French general stands on the right holding a tall spear in his right hand, the head of which is a fleur-de-lys; his left hand is on his hip. He wears a feathered hat and an enormously long pigtail queue. He and all his men wear extravagantly large shirt frills. Facing him is a rank of three soldiers standing at attention with bayoneted muskets; then an officer holding a fleur-de-lys flag; then another rank of three privates. The privates' knapsacks have the appearance of enormous muffs. 25 November 1780
Etching
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 248 millimetres
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Width: 348 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', V, 1935)
For Rochambeau's army, intended to be 8,000, but actually only 5,500, which arrived off Rhode Island 11 July 1780, see J. B. Perkins, 'France in the American Revolution', pp. 400 ff.; J. J. Jusserand, 'With Americans of past and present days', 1916, pp. 1 ff. Reproduced Drepperd, 'Early American Prints', p. 204.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4724