18th Century Camp Followers

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Last updated: Oct 27, 2025

This page focuses on images of wives, widows, and other probable family members of common soldiers in the 18th century.

• Troops on the March by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, c. 1725
• Troops at Rest by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, c. 1725
• Soldiers and Camp Followers Resting from a March by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, c. 1730
• Escorte d’équipage, 1731
• Eh mon mary, point tant de vanité (Ah, my husband, do not be so vain. Without the dragoons and the monks you would hardly have a family), by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, c. 1740-1775
• The March of the Guards to Finchley by William Hogarth, c. 1749-1750
• Grenadiers, 19th and 20th Regiments of Foot, and 21st Royal North British Fusiliers, 1751 by David Morier
• The Way to Preferment, 1758
• British infantrymen of a royal regiment in an encampment, 1760
• A crippled soldier with his family, c. 1760
• A soldier’s wife begging by Daniel Chodowiecki, 1764
• Marquess of Granby relieving a sick soldier by Edward Penny, 1765; additional version here /An officer giving alms to a sick soldier by Edward Penny, c. 1765
• Lord Clive receiving from the Nawab of Bengal a grant of money for disabled officers and soldiers by Edward Penny, 1772-1773
• Six-pence a day, 1775
• The Disbanded Soldier. So shall Desert in Arms be crown’d.
• North Carolina brigade of the Continental Army marching through Philadelphia on August 25, 1777 by Pierre Eugène du Simitiére
• A perspective view of an encampment, 1780
• A military encampment in the Green Park by Edward Eyre, 1780
• View near the Ring in Hyde Park, looking towards Grosvenor Gate, during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780
• View near the Serpentine River in Hyde Park during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780
• View near the Serpentine River, Hyde Park during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780
• Views of Encampments in Hyde-Park and Black-Heath by Paul Sandby, including The Soldiers Toilet &c, The Fair Stationer (also here), The Blacksmith and Knife Grinder with a distant of Sir Ricd Worsleys Pavilion &c, A Camp Kitchen, Provision for the Camp &c., The Amusements of Men and Children, The Laundress, The Jolly Landlady, A Camp Kitchen
• Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, August 1782; see also More Military Camp Followers, Young & Old
• A military encampment in Hyde Park, 1785
• Camp in Hyde Park, London, 1785
• The Deserter Pardoned by George Morland, 1792
• The Soldier’s Wife, 1793
• He would be a soldier, or the history of John Bulls warlike expedition, 1793
• A Soldier and His Girl by Henry William Bunbury, c. 1794
• A halt of a soldier and his family by George Morland, c. 1795-1800
• Soldiers Cooking, 1798
• Soldiers attending divine service, 1798
• Soldiers playing cards
• Generous Schoolboys (The Collection for a Soldier’s Widow) by William Redmore Bigg
• The soldier’s widow by Cornelia Scheffer-Lamme