3 5 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 27cm
British infantrymen of a royal regiment in an encampment, 1760 (c).
Oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1760.
A temporary Army encampment of the mid-eighteenth century. Groups of soldiers sit outside their tents, relaxing, smoking, and perhaps gambling. Some of them wear 'wings' of lace on their shoulders, indicating that they belong to a grenadier company, a body of elite troops. The central figure of the nursing mother is a reminder that women and children would have been found in almost every Army camp.
Oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1760.
A temporary Army encampment of the mid-eighteenth century. Groups of soldiers sit outside their tents, relaxing, smoking, and perhaps gambling. Some of them wear 'wings' of lace on their shoulders, indicating that they belong to a grenadier company, a body of elite troops. The central figure of the nursing mother is a reminder that women and children would have been found in almost every Army camp.
Image Details
Negative No.
94819
Accession No.
NAM. 2001-12-35-1
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