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Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox-Heath   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox-Heath
Description
English: A lady seated on a settee (right) looking towards three yokels who stand before her (left). She is wearing riding-dress of a military cut, an officer's coat with epaulettes, and a gorget, the sign of an officer on active service. A bunch of seals hangs from her double-breasted waistcoat. She wears a large feathered hat with a military cockade, and holds a tasselled cane under her left arm. She is addressing a young man wearing spatterdashes and holding his hat, he smiles sheepishly. Another young man wearing a hat stands behind him (left), one hand on his shoulder. The third, wearing a smock frock, holds his hat to his mouth, grinning. Outside the window (left) are the tents of the camp. 4 June 1781
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 248 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.55
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) One of many satires on camp-life connected with the camps at Coxheath and Warley. See BMSat 5523, &c.

(Supplementary information) For a dated impression, see 2010,7081.1219; for a proof before letters, see 2010,7081.1220.

Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 88. There is also a reduced version published by Carington Bowles (2010,7081.1912)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-55
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