Troops on the March by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, c. 1725

Troops at Rest by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, c. 1725

Soldiers and Camp Followers Resting from a March by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, c. 1730

Escorte d’équipage, 1731

Eh mon mary, point tant de vanité (Ah, my husband, do not be so vain. Without the dragoons and the monks you would hardly have a family), by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, c. 1740-1775

The March of the Guards to Finchley by William Hogarth, c. 1749-1750

Grenadiers, 19th and 20th Regiments of Foot, and 21st Royal North British Fusiliers, 1751 by David Morier

The Way to Preferment, 1758

British infantrymen of a royal regiment in an encampment, 1760

A crippled soldier with his family, c. 1760

A soldier’s wife begging by Daniel Chodowiecki, 1764

Marquess of Granby relieving a sick soldier by Edward Penny, 1765; additional version here /An officer giving alms to a sick soldier by Edward Penny, c. 1765

Lord Clive receiving from the Nawab of Bengal a grant of money for disabled officers and soldiers by Edward Penny, 1772-1773

Six-pence a day, 1775

The Disbanded Soldier. So shall Desert in Arms be crown’d.

North Carolina brigade of the Continental Army marching through Philadelphia on August 25, 1777 by Pierre Eugène du Simitiére

A perspective view of an encampment, 1780

A military encampment in the Green Park by Edward Eyre, 1780

View near the Ring in Hyde Park, looking towards Grosvenor Gate, during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780

View near the Serpentine River in Hyde Park during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780

View near the Serpentine River, Hyde Park during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780

Views of Encampments in Hyde-Park and Black-Heath by Paul Sandby, including The Soldiers Toilet &c, The Fair Stationer (also here), The Blacksmith and Knife Grinder with a distant of Sir Ricd Worsleys Pavilion &c, A Camp Kitchen, Provision for the Camp &c., The Amusements of Men and Children, The Laundress, The Jolly Landlady, A Camp Kitchen

Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, August 1782; see also More Military Camp Followers, Young & Old

A military encampment in Hyde Park, 1785

Camp in Hyde Park, London, 1785

The Deserter Pardoned by George Morland, 1792

The Soldier’s Wife, 1793

He would be a soldier, or the history of John Bulls warlike expedition, 1793

A Soldier and His Girl by Henry William Bunbury, c. 1794

A halt of a soldier and his family by George Morland, c. 1795-1800

Soldiers Cooking, 1798

Soldiers attending divine service, 1798

Soldiers playing cards

Generous Schoolboys (The Collection for a Soldier’s Widow) by William Redmore Bigg

The soldier’s widow by Cornelia Scheffer-Lamme