One of 3 tinted lithographs after Hermegen; scene at wharf, soldiers loading conscripts with hands locked in wooden stocks onto boats; domed mosque in background, woman with baby pleading, another with baby about to be struck by man with a stick, restrained by woman.
Notes:
Large folio, unbound; in green cloth portfolio case, white leather label st. gold.
Herwegen, Peter,
"Rekrutenauhebung in Aegypten"
(1850).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
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