The nations bulwark. A well disciplined militia

A satire on the Philadelphia militia, the first and apparently only number issued in a projected series of "Sketches of Character" by Edward Williams Clay. In the center an officer reviews a disorderly line of soldiers, some of them uniformed, standing at varying degrees of attention. In the background are two tents with people dining and drinking, a fiddler playing, and flags reading "Hurrah for Old Hickory" and "Jackson For Ever." A cider barrel is visible in one tent, and at a table shaded by an umbrella ladies dispense drink. The militiamen are said to include well-known Philadelphians of the period.
Pub. for the proprietors by R.H. Hobson. Chesnut St. Philada. 1829.
Signed: Clay (Edward Williams Clay).
The legend "Copy right secured" appears on an impression reproduced by Murrell. These words were masked out in the printing on the Library's impression, which was deposited for copyright on April 25, 1829.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Davison, no. 31.
Murrell, p. 110.
Weitenkampf, p. 22.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1829-1.