Tirailleur Francais, et Chevau Leger de l’Armée du Pacha de Rhodes”-Evolutions of the French Mounted Riflemen’

James Gillray

Tirailleur Francais, et Chevau Leger de l’Armée du Pacha de Rhodes”-Evolutions of the French Mounted Riflemen’

London, H Humphrey March 12^th 1799

Etching

Originall hand colouring

260 x 360 mm

£950

A magnificently mounted Turk (right) raises his spear to transfix a ragged French soldier who is about to be thrown by the donkey whose ear he clutches. The Frenchman’s musket is awkwardly held and goes off innocuously; defence is impossible.