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The royal soldier in His Majesty's service / [I. Cruikshank].

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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?

The royal soldier in His Majesty's service / [I. Cruikshank].

[London] : S.W. Fores, 1798.
etching, hand colored
image: 362 x 232 mm; sheet: 414 x 253 mm
Peel 1562
Notes
Caption title.
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. George.

Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850, former owner.
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Department