Suffolk Rats protecting their Cheese or the County Fencibles called to Arms
engraving, coloured, engraving
Accession Number
NAM.1971-02-10-1
Description
Suffolk Rats protecting their Cheese or the County Fencibles called to Arms. Coloured engraving after Isaac Cruikshank, nd. Published by S W Fores, 3 Piccadilly, London, 1 Jan 1795. Shows a caricature, with rat soldiers drilling in the middle of a cheese while a party firing muskets at a marauding cat sustains casualties through ineptitude.
Campaigns
Wars of the French Revolution, Home Defence (1793-1802)
Units