Hero's recruiting at Kelsey's, or, Guard Day at St. James's / Js. Gy. ad vivum fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Hero's recruiting at Kelsey's, or, Guard Day at St. James's / Js. Gy. ad vivum fect.
[London] : Pubd June 9th, 1797, by H Humphrey, St James's Street, [1797]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.138
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[London] : Pubd. June 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, [1797]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows two officers on high stools face each other at the counter of a fruit-shop and confectioner's. One is identified as Captain Birch, the other appears to be a child, his legs dangling, eating a large cornet of 'Sugar-plumbs'. A buxom woman behind the counter brings a tray of jellies in glasses. In the doorway a third officer stands with his hands clasped behind him watching a coroneted coach driving past with two footmen in feathered hats.

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