The Flying Camp. [&] Return of the Campaign.
A. Watteau pinxit. Cl. Du Bosc sculp. Printed & Sold by John Ryall at Hogarth's head near the Globe Tavern in Fleet Street London. Pair of etchings, 18th century watermark. 360 x 440mm (14¼ x 17½"), with large margins. 'Flying camp' with stain in sky. A pair of scenes of an army on the move. 'Flying Camp' shows the column bivouacking around a cooking fire, with a camp follower breast-feeding in the centre. 'Return' shows it nearing its destination, with a wogan-load of booty, the nursing mother riding on a donkey.
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