Platonic love none but the brave deserve the fair! / [graphic]

"An old military officer wearing a high cocked hat sits in a handsome room, relating his adventures to a pretty young woman (left). He has lost both arms, and both legs from the knee; she holds the end of one of his stumps. A large pier-glass hangs on the pilastered wall. Decanter, glass, pipe, and tobacco-box are on a small table (right). ..."--British Museum online catalogue