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Subject(s)

• Caricature [Browse]
• Lust—Spain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Couples—Spain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Soldiers—Spain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
• Depiction: A superior officer, going his midnight rounds of the sentries posted on a line of fortifications, is amused at discovering the phenomenon of two pairs of legs below one cloak. A trooper has taken advantage of his ample garment to smuggle in a f.
• Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del.".

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

• Grego II, p. 226
• Tegg no. 139

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