drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1875,0710.928
- Title
- Object: The first remarkable adventure or cause of promotion which happened to Cornet Tap—e . . .
- Description
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The title continues: 'on his entering into Campaign in Portugal. March 25. 1812 dedicated without permission to C Tappe Esqre'. The Cornet is supported on the back of a trumpeter where a surgeon shows his bared and scarred posteriors to a very obese general. Two lines of mounted dragoons are drawn up in the background; behind is a small Portuguese town. The surgeon: "You see General the young Cornet is not fit to go to battle in this sad condition." The general: "By G—d Surgeon, he looks d—sh sore, we will leave him behind & make him Commandant of Santarem."
c.1812
Pen and black ink, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1812
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres
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Width: 318 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
(Supplementary information)
Drawings in pen and watercolour by an amateur.
Not in Binyon.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Peninsular War 1812
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0710.928