print
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.625
- Title
- Object: The Young Recruit
- Description
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A simple interior littered with household objects, where a little boy wearing a scottish beret is standing to attention in front of a man with a wooden leg who holds a staff like a rifle at his shoulder, sitting to left beside a table in front of a fire, watched by another little boy from behind the table and a woman at a spinning wheel to right; a cat in the right foreground paws at a fish liying on the flags; after Thom; scratched open-letter state. 1825
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 391 millimetres
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Width: 456 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.625
