Army officers performing the Wetting the Commission ritual

Army officers performing a ritual commission ceremony. An officer wets a document in a bowl of punch with a sword at the Elephant and Castle pub. Wetting an Irish Commission. Handcoloured engraving from Pierce Egan's Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru Esq. and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, published by William Evans, London, 1829

Barn Blarney Blunders Bodderation Boru Bulls Commission Egan Geese Odogherty Paddy Pigs Potatoes Rambles Rovings Shawn Shebeen Slumming Sprees Wetting

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