A Military Salutation

Piercy Roberts

A Military Salutation

London, Thomas Tegg, Jan. 1^st. 1807

Etching

Original hand colouring

250 x 310 mm

Trimed to boreder, and around title area

£150

A slim young man, fashionably dressed, stands chapeau-bras, with clasped hands, facing a gouty invalid; he says: “Stand at ease”. The invalid, wearing a night-cap, sits in an armchair, his swathed and gouty legs on a stool, his hands and fore-arms also covered with wrappings. He answers, his face distorted with pain, “Yes – its very fine talking -…