Two women visit two soldiers at their training camp on Coxhead Common, Kent. Engraving after T. Stothard, 1781.

  • Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
Date:
[1781]
Reference:
33622i
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Miss Sash and her friend Miss Pugh visit the military training camp at Coxheath Commonconvi, Kent, to see Sir Charles Plume, a military enthusiast who wishes to marry Miss Sash, who shares his admiration for the military. Barnard, who does not share their enthusiasm for military achievements, tricks Miss Sash into returning to town with him, by pretending to challege Plume to a duel, wins her over and convinces her that "the school of the Graces was better adapted to a woman, than the school of Mars, or military dissipations" (loc. cit., p. 232)

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[London] : [G. Robinson], [1781]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 13.4 x 8.5 cm

Lettering

The military beauties, or the adventures of a camp.

References note

A.C. Coxhead, Thomas Stothard, R.A.: his life and work, London 1909, p. 48

Reference

Wellcome Collection 33622i

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