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He wou'd be a soldier, &c.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
Published by: Sayer & Bennett
Title
He wou'd be a soldier, &c.
Description
English: Whole length portrait of a fat citizen-soldier walking or marching in profile from right to left. He holds a bayoneted musket in his left hand against his shoulder. In his right is a nosegay which he holds to his face. He wears a cockaded hat, a coat with military facings, a ruffled shirt, crossed bandolier, and spatterdashes. His curled wig has a long pigtail queue. 1 August 1780
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Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 171 millimetres
Width: 126 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.30
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) After the Gordon riots had been suppressed by the army, 'Military Associations' were formed in the City and in several other parishes, both to guard against further disturbances and to show that the use of troops was unnecessary, cf. BMSat 5687, &c. This soldier is, however, probably one of the London Trained Bands.

BMSat 5784 is a sequel to this print.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-30
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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