Village Cavalry Practising in a Farm-Yard

Etcher Thomas Rowlandson British
After George Murgatroyd Woodward British
Publisher S. W. Fores British

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A burlesqued image of rustic cavalry training to repel a possible French invasion. Farmers mounted on cart horses, charge a peaceful farm yard, knocking down old ladies, scattering poultry, shooting pigeons, producing disarray to the dismay of their officer.

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