Austrian Hussars Charging the Enemy though a Town.
C. Gessner Delin. J. Bluck sculp. London Pub 15 Oct by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts 101 Strand. Rare & fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet 455 x 585mm (18 x 23"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, loss in bottom left of inscription area, not affecting text, chips in edges. Paper slightly cockled. Cavalry riding through a gateway towards French soldiers obscured in gun smoke. A plate from Gessner's 'Military Evolutions', which contained 20 pates by John Bluck and Conrad Ziegler
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