The Black Brunswicker - Figure Sketch1859 – 1860 Accession number: 1906P623 Pencil on paper. Width: 113 mm Height: 147 mm InformationThis sketch relates to the drawing and oil painting in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, and a drawing in Tate Britain. The scene shows an English girl saying goodbye to a German soldier sweetheart on the eve of the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The girl was modelled by Charles Dickens' daughter, Kate, and the soldier by a private in the Lifeguards.
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