A Recruiting Sergeant of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, 1814

Coloured aquatint by R and D Havell, after George Walker. Published by Robinson and Son, Leeds, 1 January 1814; from the series 'Costumes of Yorkshire'.

This work depicts a recruiting party in action outside a pub, the 'Lord Wellington', plying impressionable yokels with beer. The flat oatcake on the Sergeant's sword is a regimental tradition and symbolises the plentiful food promised to the recruits.