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Forming a line on the parade
Title
Forming a line on the parade [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Publishd. Novr. 12th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [12 November 1801]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 20.6 x 26 cm, on sheet 23.0 x 29 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched at bottom of image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A young and very smart officer lunges forward, pointing his tasselled cane at one of a line of soldiers who stand rigidly at attention full face, but with 'Eyes right' (the words inscribed at the end of the cane). He shouts: "Hold up your Head that Man there!" He holds his (sheathed) sword, attached to a sword-belt, in his left hand. The soldiers wear plumed shakos, long gaiters, and shoes with very pointed toes. Behind is a row of spectators, men and women, and one little boy. Some are fashionably dressed; one is a fat butcher."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 23, 2015
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9762
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 280
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1801.
Etchings - England - London - 1801.
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