The Dreadful miseries of the French Army enbivouac, surprised by the Russian Cossacks: A More Horrible Wreck than the once Grand French Army was never offered to the contemplation of Shuddering humanity; wading through the miseries of a Russian Winter, ill clad, worse fed, & harrassed, by an enemy constantly at their heels -= no time for encampment; all night shivering under arms, untill the stern

One of 3 series of prints and 2 separate prints bound together; 1st of 4 color aquatints by Hassell 'from a painting by J.M. Wright, Esqr. from authentic information &. documents'. 'Retreat of the French armies from Russia: starving French soldiers with a few women, huddled around a fire in a snow-covered landscape, one to right stretched exhausted on his face, one lying dead near a gun barrel to left, one crouched near a dead horse behind him and a party of cossacks galloping out of trees to attack them in the background to left' -- British Museum One of 3 series of prints and 2 separate prints bound together; 1st of 4 color aquatints by Hassell 'from a painting by J.M. Wright, Esqr. from authentic information &. documents'. 'Retreat of the French armies from Russia: starving French soldiers with a few women, huddled around a fire in a snow-covered landscape, one to right stretched exhausted on his face, one lying dead near a gun barrel to left, one crouched near a dead horse behind him and a party of cossacks galloping out of trees to attack them in the background to left' -- British Museum Folio; bound in 3/4 green morocco stamped gold "Prints. Russian Campaign" and marble boards; worn, some plates foxed. London, Francis Edwards, 1951.