Flannel-armour; - female-patriotism, or, Modern heroes accoutred for the wars / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Flannel-armour; - female-patriotism, or, Modern heroes accoutred for the wars / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
engraving
image: 30.5 x 35.5 cm; sheet: 30.8 x 36.4 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2829
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1793.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to within plate mark.

Summary: 

The interior of a barrack-room; ladies are fitting soldiers with warm caps and undergarments. All the men wear conical caps with ear-pieces, some arranged to resemble a fool's cap. The three ladies in the foreground are young and comely; of those in the background, one is enormously fat, others thin and witch-like. On the wall are two dilapidated prints: 'Hannibal' and 'Charles XII' (the head torn off), commanders noted for their disregard of severe weather. Beneath the title: 'To the benevolent Ladies of Great Britain, who have so liberally supported the new system of Military Cloathing [sic], this Print is dedicated -'

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