Caricature. Matthias Darly (publisher; c. 1720-1780) - The T...

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Caricature. Matthias Darly (publisher; c. 1720-1780) - The Three Graces of Cox-Heath, [London, 1779], etching, with contemporaneous hand-colouring, 23 x 30.5cm

A rare print satirising the Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), Elizabeth FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton (1745-1822), and Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (1748-1812), all of whom followed their ducal husbands and their respective militias - in the Devonshires' case Derbyshire - to Coxheath, near Maidstone, Kent, then the British Army's camp training raw troops into soldiers, to fight alongside the British Army, during the American Revolutionary War. The aristocratic ladies even had their dressmakers tailor fashionable 'military uniforms' for themselves.

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A rare satirical print. Unexamined out of frame, but apparently trimmed with loss of lettering. The sheet somewhat browned, yet displaying well.