Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Any thing will do for an officer.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00079
Identifier
ark:/88435/mg74qv22f
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1796/01/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1796
Extent
1 item ; sheet 38.3 x 24.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 398 (1806)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Inscribed in plate: "Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put in the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another. Why make an officer of him."
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson fecit".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Great Britain. Army—Officers—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8d54c2c8-b885-4d50-a583-22431f995a79/manifest