Engraving by Isaac Cruikshank. Spectators watch military manoeuvers in the air. The sky is covered with camps, marching men, and galloping cavalry, some are in military formation, others are single figures. There are tents and marquees with wings; a man beats a drum, three orientals wearing turbans race through the air beating cymbals. In the foreground (left) spectators on horseback look up in amazement, one horse throws its rider; geese, goslings and pigs are under the horses' feet. On the right the King and Queen sit together on a bank, the King gazing through a small telescope and the Queen looking at him with delighted astonishment. In front of them is a gate over which two officers mounted on winged cannon are gracefully leaping, a third soars into the air. The camp at Bagshot was formed to introduce new manoeuvers for rapid movement, and the troops were to strike their tents and move their camps several times, to Hertford Bridge, Guildford etc. Peter Pindar ridiculed the camp, the Duke of Richmond, 'the galloping, the flying Duke', and the visitors: 'Say, how went forth to see him half the nation Their mouths well cramm'd with dust and admiration- All the Duke's friends, great quality and small; Our great King George, great quality and small; Were entertain'd scot free, I ween- Our generous nation doom'd to pay it all'. 'A Pair of Lyric Epistles', 1792, pp. 8-9. In Dibdin's entertainment, 'Castles in the Air' (1792), there was a ballad on Bagshot Camp, ridiculing the cockney crowds. 'Life of Dibdin, 1803, iii. 228-30. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8116.