"Anecdote of the Russian Peasant of Smolensk who being forced by the French, cooly chopped off his hand, rather than serve Bonaparte on his march towards Moscow." An aquatint engraving by John Heaviside Clark and Matthew Dubourg after John Augustus Atkinsonfrom a sketch by an officer. Published by Edward Orme in 1819 with original hand colouring.
Approx 28cms by 20cms.
