A Recruiting Sergeant of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, 1814.
aquatint, coloured, print
Accession Number
NAM.1961-10-67-1
Description
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.