German soldier caricature, c. 1790

Hand-colored engraved caricature; soldiers and civilians standing outside tavern, woman holding baby in doorway, officer at right center wearing cape and holding up bottle of poison for display, little boy in center blowing toy trumpet, wounded soldiers with peg-legs in left foreground and right background. Hand-colored engraved caricature; soldiers and civilians standing outside tavern, woman holding baby in doorway, officer at right center wearing cape and holding up bottle of poison for display, little boy in center blowing toy trumpet, wounded soldiers with peg-legs in left foreground and right background. Small oblong folio; margins severely trimmed; slightly worn and creased. Title supplied by cataloger. Presented, 1966, by Agnes Mongan.