A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
- Date:
- Feb. 11 1784
- Reference:
- 33167i
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The veteran has a wooden leg. He points up to a portrait of a corpulent general, possibly the Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765) in later life. On the back wall is a plan of the battle of Dettingen, in the War of Austrian Succession
Publication/Creation
London (Strand) : W. Humphrey, Feb. 11 1784.
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1 print : etching ; sheet 15 x 16.8 cm
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Lettering
Long sermons and long sieges are apt to lull the senses.
References note
Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, London:: Chatto and Windus, 1880, vol 2, p. 389
Reference
Wellcome Collection 33167i
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