Print, Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, 1840

Plate no 16, in a street, a drum major approaches a workingman (seated smoking a pipe) who is apparently a former soldier and tells him that one day he will also return to civilian life; in the background young soldiers carrying drums. 1828 lithograph. Date: 1840. Dimensions: Height: 147 mm (image); Height: 360 mm (sheet); Width: 127 mm; Width: 270 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Print (BM 1930,0118.16)