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Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective uniforms Representing the whole of the Manual Platoon & Funeral Exercise in 87 plates

Artist:
Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Dedicatee:
Prince William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (British, London 1743–1805 London)
Publisher:
Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794–1829)
Date:
1798
Medium:
Aquatint
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
Classifications:
Albums, Prints
Credit Line:
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number:
59.533.578(1-87)
Not on view
Francis Harvey (British); C. W. Dyson Perrins(sale Sotheby's London, Jan. 12, 1959); Vendor: Sotheby's, London (British), Jan. 12, 1959
Grego I.375-8 (August 12, 1799), II.395 (June 20, 1799)
Joseph Grego Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A selection from his works, with anecdotal desciptions.... 2 vols., London, 1880, vol. I, pp. 375-8 (August 12, 1799), vol. II, p. 395 (June 20, 1799).

The Grolier Club A Catalogue of Books Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, Together with a collection of original drawings by him Exh. cat. November 1916, cat. no. 11, pp. 13-15.

John Roland Abbey Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860: Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army Panoramas, etc., From the Library of J. R. Abbey. The Curwen Press, Ltd., 1953, pp. 319-20, no. 379.

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