The Quarter Master presenting bills for barrack damages, with cogent reasons for not paying them!!.
Pub. by McCleary 32 Nassau Street [Dublin].
[graphic].
| Summary: | Hand-coloured engraving featuring a satirical caricature (by an unknown hand) of a group of officers in British army uniform gathered around a long wooden table in the Officer's Mess; a sign framed on the wall reads 'Rules / to be observed / at this Mess / every Officer...". They are addressed by the Quarter Master (seen from behind) who says to them [in a speech bubble] "Gentlemen, I've paid the Barrack Master for every article, & if the Commanding Officer will not order you to repay me, I will report it to the general". Various men respond to him (each unwilling to acknowledge the need to reimburse him) - one remarks to him "My Servant lost the coal box, I won't pay for it"; another says "I know nothing of the bellows, I suppose that hussey that rob'd [robbed] me of the bank note stole them"; another remarks "I assure you the windows were broke when I took the room" while another says "What a shame to charge a shilling for a key when I could buy one at an old iron shop for three pence". Bottles of wine can be seen on a sideboard on the lefthandside of the room while two small dogs are depicted in the foreground of the scene. |
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| Format: | Prints & Drawings |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
[Dublin] :
McCleary 32 Nassau Street,
[n.d., ca. 1810-1820?]
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| Notes: | Formerly held at NLI call number PD 4495 TB. Physical description: 1 print : hand-coloured engraving ; image 20.6 x 30.3 cm., on sheet 24.1 x 34 cm.. more |
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PD B145 |
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Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland.
