print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- J,21.44
- Title
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Object: A Field-Officer of Royal Engineers, and a Private Sapper
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Series: Costume of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last Regulations, 1814.
- Description
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An officer of the Royal Engineers, gesturing with his telescope and holding a map in his other hand, in gold-laced uniform with blue facings and epaulettes on his shoulders, a plumed bicorne on his head and a sword at his side, a sapper behind with fuses and stakes in his hands, dressed in uniform with blue facings with a shako on his head, a pickaxe and spade to the foreground, illustration to "Costume of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last Regulations, 1814." (1815)
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1815
- Dimensions
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Height: 317 millimetres
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Width: 245 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bound as a series of plates in book form with aquatint frontispiece, printed titlepage and sixty unnumbered aquatints. For the complete set, see J,21.1 to 61.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Costume of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last Regulations, 1814.
- Acquisition date
- 1816 (circa)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,21.44
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1972,U.371.44