Getty Museum

[The Soldier]

Date

1864

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

British

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

A photograph of Robert Smirke's painting "The Soldier" depicting the fourth age of man from a Shakespearean monologue ("As You Like It," Act II Scene VII). The scene shows a young man with a flowing cape raising a flag. A cannon bursts behind him and there are fallen soldiers at his feet.

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