Figure descriptions
Multiple figures gather in a kitchen. They all look toward a bald man, identified
in the poem caption as Corporal Trim, who
stands with a cane at the center of the scene. The Corporal is dressed in uniform,
and his hat lies on the ground by his feet. A
woman stands to the Corporal’s left and places her right hand upon his shoulder. She
wears a bonnet and an apron. With her left
hand, she pulls up her apron to wipe a tear from her face. Directly to the Corporal’s
right, one man sits in a chair holding a full
mug. A second man stands at his side and a spotted dog lies at his feet under the
chair. To the right of these two men, a woman
wearing a bonnet and an apron tends to a pot on the open hearth. In front of them,
a woman in an identical outfit kneels on the
ground to scrub a large pan. A small pot lies on the ground beside her. There is a
small table beside the hearth. Behind the first
four figures, there is a large wooden plank, acting as a partial room divider. A cloth,
a rope, and a hat lie on its top edge.
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