Durham Benoist A recruiting sergeant interviews two

A recruiting sergeant interviews two recruits

The annual flooding of the Nile was always vitally important to Egypt as it governed the fertility of the soil and could mean the difference between abundance and starvation

and wherein every muscle in its respective place only conspires to form pleasing symmetry and proportion that appears thro' the whole

Plate 3 from Anatomy of the Human Body by William Cheselden FRS (London

The French under Napoleon and General Kleber defeated an Ottoman army attempting to break the French siege of Acre

Durham Benoist A recruiting sergeant interviews twoWatercolour, some gum and scraping on paper, about 1830 1835.