The deserter [graphic][1 March 1784]eng"A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter.Mounted on page 17 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.