A General Discharge by Thomas Rowlandson

Hand-coloured caricature of a kneeling officer lamenting as a woman hammers a cannon, with soldiers fleeing in the background

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A hand-coloured satirical etching shows a plump officer kneeling in despair beside a large cannon, while a woman in a bonnet strikes at the gun with a mallet. Speech balloons carry the captions, and small figures of soldiers and a drummer appear in the background.

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