The cropper

Engraved caricature [by Charles Mosley and others? published June, 1749]; city square showing the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and Holbein's Gate, Westminster, with soldiers from three regiments of foot guards protesting (most with speech bubbles above their heads) the 9 June 1749 order for queues and uniform coattails to be shortened some three inches for sake of convenience on marches, by command and supervision of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Along with several other printsellers Mosley was examined before Lord Stanhope over his involvement with this print and other satires on the duke of Cumberland - [see entry for Mosley in Oxford Dictionary of National Biogaphy.] Engraved caricature [by Charles Mosley and others? published June, 1749]; city square showing the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and Holbein's Gate, Westminster, with soldiers from three regiments of foot guards protesting (most with speech bubbles above their heads) the 9 June 1749 order for queues and uniform coattails to be shortened some three inches for sake of convenience on marches, by command and supervision of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Along with several other printsellers Mosley was examined before Lord Stanhope over his involvement with this print and other satires on the duke of Cumberland - [see entry for Mosley in Oxford Dictionary of National Biogaphy.] Small oblong folio, mounted on cream paper; margins trimmed; tear at lower edge; yellowed. N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1962.