print
- Museum number
- 1865,0520.870
- Title
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Object: Soldier's Family
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Series: The Life and Death of a Soldier
- Description
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A group gathered on stone benches at a stone table, in the shelter of boulders; comprising a man wearing a turban and armour sitting in the foreground with a woman resting her arms on his shoulder, while he reaches to take a dish from a little boy; the latter is ushered forwards by his mother and watched by his father, who sits in armour and helmet opposite; with another man standing behind and a view of a cliff-top town overlooking the sea in the background to left; after Mortimer. 1781
Etching printed in brownish ink
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 391 millimetres (trimmed to platemark(?))
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Width: 444 millimetres (trimmed to platemark(?))
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1865,0520.869
The drawing is in reverse direction and is in BM P&D (Oo,5.12; Sunderland 68.2a; Binyon 23).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0520.870
