print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,6.45
- Title
- Object: A Visit to the Camp
- Description
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Satire on visitors to militia camps: two groups of visitiors - a woman wearing a large hood and carrying a parasol with a short man with a driving whip and a taller one wearing spectacles, and tow older men, one holding a glass the other accompanied by a dog - all are caricatured to some extent; they are being shown around the camp by two elegant young soldiers; a row of tents behind. 1 December 1779
Stipple
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres
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Width: 362 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Note from Tim Clayton) This print is the first in Watson & Dickinson's series of prints after Bunbury. The plate was sold Dickinson 1794, second day lot 89, 2, Visit to the camp and the coffee house, Bunbury, by Watson with 61 impressions to Laurie for £13 13s. 6d. It then appeared in Laurie & Whittle's 1795 catalogue, p. 37, no. 4 as 'A VISIT to the CAMP, by ditto' at 2s. 6d. plain and 5s. in colours. The Dickinson catalogue identifies Watson as the engraver.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,6.45
