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Any thing will do for an officer
Title
Any thing will do for an officer [graphic] / Rowlandson fecit.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street, [1 January 1796]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 37 x 23 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched above imprint and below text.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Five lines of text below image and above title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him.
Publisher's statement below image: Prints & drawings lent on the plan of a circulating library, folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2007
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1796.
Etchings - England - London - 1796.
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