A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother's skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk
Alternative Title:
Relieving the distressed travellers
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by Robert Dighton, now at the Yale Center for British Art (Accession Number: B1986.29.78). The drawing is part of a set of "Twelve Illustrations to Contemporary Life and Diversions.", Date of publication based on watermark., and Watermark: [...] ons 1812.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Travel, Children, Wagons, Recruiting & enlistment, and Soldiers
