United Irishmen in training / Js. Gy. inv. & ft.

Print shows the exterior of a country ale-house where ruffians are practising their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier. One man levels a spear, another fires a misshapen pistol, a third, who is bare-legged, with a headsman's axe in his belt, fires a blunderbuss whose large bullets fall to the ground. In the foreground (right) a woman turns the handle of a grindstone on which a man sharpens a sword; on the ground is a pile of weapons: swords, daggers, spears, muskets, and a pistol. Behind (right) men with pikes and spears gather round the inn-door, which is inscribed 'True French Spirits'. They drink while the landlord fills a glass from a small keg.