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Bethnal-Green Company of Irish Impresst Volunteers   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Bethnal-Green Company of Irish Impresst Volunteers
Description
English: Satire on the raising of volunteer companies; Justice Wilmot leading a band of ragged and crippled soldiers. late 1770s
Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Sir John Eardley Wilmot
Date between 1777 and 1779
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 388 millimetres
Width: 493 millimetres (cut)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2000,0521.33
Notes

In the late 1770s local volunteer companies were formed throughout the British Isles to substitute for regular soldiers sent to fight the American Revolution; these were stood down at the end of the American war in 1783, but raised again in the 1790s. For illustrations of the uniforms of London local volunteer companies, see Rowlandson's series of 1798 (press mark: PD 170*.a.4); the Bethnal Green Volunteers are nos. 15 and 16. For other satires on local volunteer companies, see BM Satires 5551 and 5552.

The imaginary volunteer company shown here has been raised from among the poor Irish inhabitants of Bethnal Green. A number of the officers are clearly intended to be identified. Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, is represented as 'Just Ass Wilmot' with his dog near the front of the 'Company'; he co-ordinated the search for Spitalfield rioters - many of whom were Irish silk weavers - in 1771 and his house at Bethnal Green was demolished during the Gordon Riots in 1780.

Neither Richard Simpson, the designer of this print, nor Robert Wilson, the engraver, is known and the names may be fictitious.

Verses with chorus 'Doodle, &c.'. appear on satirical prints going back as far as 1741, BMSat 2479, etc.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2000-0521-33
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