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War, The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXVI, no. 1 (Spring 1996), 2-8.

A Soldiers Wife Begging(1764), by Daniel ChodowieckiAs 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 theyavoided 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)

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