are his ten known surviving cartoons that he published when he was a college student at trinity college cambridge university in england. they make fun of the new rich in england and ireland. they poke fun at macaroni fashions. they poke fun at, for example, in the center there, the country apothecary, one of his professors at cambridge, the old macaroni critic. these are published by matthew and mary darley in 1772 and 1773. soon after that, he joins the british army. that's when he commissions this portrait right before he ships off for america. this portrait was probably painted, probably posed for it right before he left. there's a narrow window of time from the spring of 1776 when he purchase this had commission to the early summer of 1776 when he left for america that he could have posed for this. there's that reference to him talking about this portrait when he was older after the war. the intense campaigns of the early revolutionary war, fights first in and around new york. but then he joins william howell's excursion to capture the capital of philadelphia, which we have the pleasure to be