Rowlandson (Thomas)

satirising the pending peace treaty, which eventually followed the Convention of Armistice negotiated between the French and the Austrians, on behalf of the allies, in late April, 1814, here depicting soldiers openly relaxing at an English coastal fort, several flirting with buxom maidens, one slumped over a drum and cannonballs scattered across the ground, a large but out-dated Royal Standard flutters above,

original hand-coloured etching, 330 x 250 mm. (13 x 9 3/4 in), slight marginal browning, framed and glazed, [BM Satires 12259],