Einquartierung auf dem Lande

One of a pair of colored engravings after Hess; soldiers eating and abusing a family in kitchen in which they are billeted; one attacks a young women as a family member tries to intervene with a stick, as another soldier prepares to fend him off with his sword; a mother cries with a cloth to her face as a man surrendering with hands up is being ordered by a solder to clear a broken plate of food on the floor as a cat runs away; infants watching. One of a pair of colored engravings after Hess; soldiers eating and abusing a family in kitchen in which they are billeted; one attacks a young women as a family member tries to intervene with a stick, as another soldier prepares to fend him off with his sword; a mother cries with a cloth to her face as a man surrendering with hands up is being ordered by a solder to clear a broken plate of food on the floor as a cat runs away; infants watching. Small oblong folio, matted; plate marks, margins intact; clean. Zürich, August Laube, 1953. Title: Einquartierung auf dem Lande. Label(s): Bibl Label(s): 1799