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  • Two boys stare at an old soldier with a large moustache. Lithograph.
  • An old German soldier giving advice to a young one. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • An old German soldier giving advice to a young one. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • A man in soldier's uniform is walking past an old man in tattered clothing. Lithograph.
  • An old soldier with a wooden leg telling a family about his experiences. Etching by W. Matthews after S. Jennen.
  • An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.
  • An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.
  • A soldier bends down to put some money into the hand of an old lady who is sitting on the side of the road. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1829.
  • An old man with a wooden leg, probably a former soldier, marches with a shouldered broomstick to the drum beaten by a child behind him. Lithograph by T. Farlow after R. Farrier.
  • A Roman soldier and an old man walking among colossal Greek and Roman inscriptions and reliefs; a Greek fragment representing horses and a man's head in the foreground. Etching by A. Cardon after G. Bracci, ca. 1766.