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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?
The royal soldier in His Majesty's service / [I. Cruikshank].
etching, hand colored
image: 362 x 232 mm; sheet: 414 x 253 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1562
Published:
[London] : S.W. Fores, 1798.
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Four lines of verse at foot of sheet: He Would be a Soldier the sweet Willy O / The first of all Swains / That gladden'd the plains / All Nature obeyed him - the sweet Willy O!
Summary:
Print shows Pitt, in uniform, as a soldier or volunteer, standing at attention in profile to the right, holding a bayoneted musket. He is grotesquely thin and elongated. Cf. BM Satires.
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