NAM.1959-10-102-2

Blackwell’s Military Figures / Halberdsmen. Coloured etching by T Cook after William Hogarth, 1809. No 1 in the series. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1 Jul, 1 Feb and 1 Aug 1809. Shows 15 figures demonstrating pike drill. These are later, smaller versions of the plates originally published by Jno Blackwell as ‘A Compendium of Military Discipline as it is practised by the Honourable Artillery Company of the City of London’ in 1726.