#Satirical #print, 1835, by #French #illustrator and #lithographer Auguste Raffet (1804-1860), showing a group of worn-down #Revolutionary Era soldiers, whose #footwear are in a particularly bad state.

Text: "Le représentant a dit: Avec fer et du pain on peut aller en Chine...Il n'a pas parlé de chaussures." (The commissary said : With cold steel and bread you can get to China. He said nothing about boots.)

In the #Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge, UK.

#Satirical #print, 1835, by #French #illustrator and #lithographer Auguste Raffet (1804-1860), showing a group of worn-down #Revolutionary Era soldiers, whose #footwear are in a particularly bad state.

Text: "Le représentant a dit: Avec fer et du pain on peut aller en Chine...Il n'a pas parlé de chaussures." (The commissary said : With cold steel and bread you can get to China. He said nothing about boots.)

In the #Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge, UK.