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Recruits / W. H. Bunbury, delint. ; Watson & Dickinson, excudt. – Antique Wall Art

Recruits / W. H. Bunbury, delint. ; Watson & Dickinson, excudt., London : Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, 1780. — antique engraving
Recruits / W. H. Bunbury, delint. ; Watson & Dickinson, excudt., London : Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, 1780.. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Recruits / W. H. Bunbury, delint. ; Watson & Dickinson, excudt.

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Recruits" is a 1780 stipple engraving drawn by W. H. Bunbury, a London caricaturist known for comic scenes of military life, and published by Watson & Dickinson on New Bond Street. It belongs to the British cartoon prints that mocked the army and its methods while Britain was fighting the American colonies and needed men for its regiments. The record links the print to an event dated around 1770, but that date comes from unverified cataloguing, so it is safest to read the scene as a general comment on how soldiers were gathered. Its humor rests on the distance between the recruiting sergeant's pitch and the reality of enlistment.

Created / publishedLondon : Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, 1780.
Medium1 print : stipple engraving.
GenreCartoons (Commentary) British 1780.Stipple engravings 1780.
NotesRelated to event dated ca. 1770 in Stephens. This record contains unverified data from Stephens. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / prepared by Frederic George Stephens, v. 4, no. 4766 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,324 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125065

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