One of a pair of color mezzotints by J. Murphy after Wheatley; 3 mounted light dragoons talking to women and farmer in foreground who are trying to sell produce to them, child with basket of eggs, another pulls blanket off baskets containing chickens; encampment and other soldiers at right in landscape background,
Notes:
Large oblong folio, matted; plate marks, margins; clean.
Wheatley, Francis,
"The Encampment at Brighton"
(1796).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
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