Print Description
Military exercises of the pike.
Made by after an anonymous artist.
Medium: Copperplate engraving on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 16 x 21.2 cm (6.3 x 8.35 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Soiling and dampstaining with a small hole and a thin paper spot. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
MILITARY-EXERCISES-PIKE-PIKEMAN | PCO-C22-10
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
“Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army,” Stockdale, London.
Biography engraver: Francis Grose (1731-1791) was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer. He produced A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) and A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions (1787).
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