ST GEORGE’S VOLUNTEERS Charging down Bond Street, after clearing the Ring in Hyde Park, & Storming the Dunghill at Marybone.
etching, coloured, print
Accession Number

NAM.1981-03-70-1

Description

ST GEORGE’S VOLUNTEERS Charging down Bond Street, after clearing the Ring in Hyde Park, & Storming the Dunghill at Marybone. Coloured etching by and after James Gillray, 1797 (c). Published by Mrs Hannah Humphrey, Bond Street, London, 1797. Gillray takes a sardonic view of the military value of the voluntary movement, here a gallant charge clears female shoppers from Bond Street.