Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Slugs in a saw-pit].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00750
Identifier
ark:/88435/fx719v58g
Publisher
London : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1791]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1791
Extent
1 item ; sheet 11.9 x 19.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, pp. 296-297 (reproduced)
Rothrock no. A36
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Soldier and sailor in sawpit aim muskets at one another.
Unsigned.
Title indicates that the print has already been identified as relating to (perhaps as an initial preliminary sketch) a print Slugs in a Saw-pit. Not in the British Museum, but there is a copy of the print at Princeton (GA 2014.00490;) for another see.

Discovery Information

Subject
Soldiers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Weapons—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Sailors—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Interservice rivalry (Armed Forces)—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Drawing—Great Britain—19th century
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0f961e33-2533-4720-a9d6-784990dd3084/manifest