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Description of work: After Harry Payne (1858 – 1927), 'General's Inspection', 'The Grand Salute', satirical lithographic newspaper illustration/caricature from the series 'Reynold's British Army', published by Reynolds & Co, c. 1881.
Harry Joseph Payne was a painter and illustrator from Newington, London who often worked using oilette postcards with his brother Arthur C. Payne. He also painted battle pictures in oil and produced illustrations for books such as Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hameline. As well as having his work published by Reynolds & Co, he produced works for Tuck & Sons and Gale and Polden. He is most notably for his military subjects, although he also illustrated other matters. He served in the army in the West Kent Yeomanry, where he became a sergeant in the 1890s. In 1905 he was awarded the Imperial Yeomanry Long Service Medal.
This is one of six plates from the series and is particularly satirical for the artist who often adopted a more illustrative style. Given that other plates in the series focus on the Royal Welch Fusiliers, it is possible that this plate does the same. This regiment was involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15) and later the Crimean Wat, Second Opium War, the Indian Mutiny and the Third Anglo-Burmese War. In the 1830s, under the reign of William IV,
Coloured copies of the full series can be found via the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, which represents an important collection of military material, particularly in relation to illustrations of soldiers. A 1901 painting of the Royal Horse Guards sold fat Bonhams in 2007 for £50,400.

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