print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,6.47
- Title
- Object: Recruits
- Description
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Satire on army recruitment: a group of three dishevelled new recruits being drilled outside an inn called 'The Old Fortune', the sign showing a old soldier with one leg and one arm and a patch over one eye; on the left a young officer stands smartly looking on; a young woman is sitting on the ground selling vegetables from a basket; the head of a grinning man appears behind her looking around the wall of the inn. 1 January 1780
Stipple with some etching
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 364 millimetres
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Width: 312 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Note from Tim Clayton) This is no.2 in Watson and Dickinson's series, and a companion print to A Visit to the Camp (BMSat.4765) and Nancy. The original drawing descended in the Bunbury family and was sold by Sir William Bunbury in 1975 (lot 104) to a private collector.
The plate was sold Dickinson 1794, second day, lot 91, '2, recruits and the relief, Bunbury', with 48 impressions for 2 guineas to Robert Laurie. It appeared in Laurie & Whittle's 1795 catalogue (p. 37, no. 2) as `RECRUITS, drawn by Bunbury, engraved by Watson & Dickinson' at 2s. 6d. plain and 5s. coloured.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,6.47
