'Handle your Match', The Grenadier's Exercise, 1735 (c)

The eighth of 17 plates from a copy of a book of coloured etchings, 'The Granadiers Exercise of the Granade, in his Majesty's first Regiment of Foot-Guards', by Bernard Lens, published 1735. With the dedication, 'Design'd for the use of His Royal Highness Duke of Cumberland'.

The figure of a British grenadier in mitre cap adopting a drill position with grenade and slung musket.