Captain and other officers of a company of volunteers waiting upon the committee of their company to be taken measure of for their uniforms
Print with letterpress text printed on two strips of paper affixed to the top and bottom of the sheet above and below the image; with four stanzas of comic verse in four columns on the lower attached strip, first lines: See in the front the Captain stand, Bold leader of this Warlike Band ...; last lines: ... Those hands to brandish Sword and Shield, Which needle erst were wont to wield.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Print shows a room with a large, low table where a group of tailors are at work, while a group of a group of men in officers uniform sit around the table, with one man in uniform wearing a cocked hat and holding a gavel sits cross legged on the table top; at right, another man in military uniform measures the arm of a man in civilian clothes with measuring tape, while two other men dressed as civilians stand before a doorway at far right; tailors' tools hang from the back wall, along with a notice which reads, "Articles of the Committee as drawn up at the desire of Jas. Bodkin Chairman"; a picture showing a man on horseback hangs over the doorway at right, with the words "To Brentford".