A Recruiting Sergeant of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, 1814
A Recruiting Sergeant of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, 1814.Coloured aquatint by R and D Havell, after George Walker.Published by Robinson and Son, Leeds, 1 Jan 1814; from the series ?Costumes of Yorkshire?.Depicts a recruiting party in action outside a pub, the ?Lord Wellington?, plying impressionable yokels with beer, a flat oatcake on the Sergeant?s sword is a regimental tradition and symbolises the plentiful food promised to recruits
Picture No
11096691
Media ID
48571031
Size
3000px x 2041px
(3.3MB)
Credit
©The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Aquatint, colour
Date
circa 1814
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1814 33rd Aquatint Depicts Havell Impressionable Plentiful Plying Promised Recruiting Recruits Regimental Symbolises Wellington Yokels
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