Bruce E.

Burgoyne, Women with the Hessian Auxiliaries during the American Revolutionary War, The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXVI, no. 1 (Spring 1996), 2-8.

A Soldiers Wife Begging (1764), by Daniel Chodowiecki

As the great Danzig-born artist Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) shows in this etching, the casualties of the long mid-century European wars extended beyond the fighting troops, whose rank-and-file were recruited or hired from the lower strata of society. Even if they avoided wounds or death in battle, their wives and children frequently suffered economic deprivation in their absence. Here, a soldiers wife dressed in her fallen husbands uniform jacket and hat, begs for alms while holding her newborn. Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), 1764. German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2687