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Military portraits- or a brrace of heroes.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Charles Williams

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Military portraits- or a brrace of heroes.
Description
English: An officer wearing the high plumed hat of a St. James's Volunteer sits an ungainly horse in profile to the right. He holds one rein awkwardly, the other lies on the horse's neck. Despite uniform, gorget, and a drawn sabre against his right shoulder, his appearance is unmilitary. In the background (left) is a pavilion in which are tiny figures, one holding a large flag on which is a wreath surrounding a circle. On the right is a paling over which look a few spectators. The officer's words are in the upper right corner: 'Serjeant I desire you will back upon that Old Woman facing the front rank the glare of her red cloak will put the Gentlemen out.' Beneath the design is: 'Major Sturgeon O Such Marchings and Counter-marchings, from St James's to Tottenham Court from Tottenham Court, from Tottenham Court to St James's.' 30 July 1798
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 337 millimetres
Width: 387 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10353
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

The scene is evidently the presentation of colours by the Duchess of York to the St. James's Volunteers in Calvert's ground, Bedford Square, on 5 July. Their colonel was Baron Amherst, [The profile in the print is not inconsistent with the much later (non-profile) engraved portraits. One of the spectators in the pavilion was Lady Plymouth (see BMSat 7430), whom Amherst married 24 July 1800.] and a pavilion was erected for the 'Duchess of York and nobility, and for Lord Amherst and his friends'. 'Lond. Chron.', 6 July 1798. The uniform resembles that of a St. James's Volunteer, No. 1 (1 June 1798), in Rowlandson's plates of Volunteer Military Costume. Major Sturgeon is the cockney militia officer in Foote's 'Mayor of Garratt' (1763) (played by Foote). He says, I. i.: 'O such marchings and counter-marchings, from Brentford to Elin [Ealing], from Elin to Acton . . . .' Cf. BMSat 9242.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10353
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