German troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War mb-code 42-56231896 The lower figures are portraits

The lower figures are portraits of a Gascon knight and the author paying his respects to the knight who had sent for him to accompany him to England

In 1845-1847 he assisted the British archaeologist AH Layard in his first expedition to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh

And Drink At Home

wearing plumes on his head and loose dress with a dog at his feet

including a couple on horseback passing a man with a donkey and a group round a barrow with a street seller approaching

German troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War mb-code 42-56231896 The lower figures are portraitsGerman troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914).