An officer's widow in mourning dress presents her son to the Commander in Chief for admission to a military school at Horse Guards. Steel engraving by T. Turnbull after an illustration by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841.

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