print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- S,2.115
- Title
- Object: A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland, in the Year 1745
- Description
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"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a chimney boy, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink; in the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill; unfinished etched proof, before letters. 1750
Etching
- Production date
- 1750
- Dimensions
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Height: 431 millimetres
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Width: 552 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In the middle of the lowest windows in the brothel, the prostitute with the fan looks ahead as in the painting.
The copperplate for this print is in the British Museum: see 1937,0807.4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Jacobite Rebellion 1745-1746
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- S,2.115