No. 1: She Will Be A Soldier 1798

"No. 1: She Will Be A Soldier" is a colored etching by Heinrich Joseph Schütz. The artwork depicts a scene of a young girl in a white dress, her arm around a little boy, being raised by her family to be a soldier. To the left of the group, a young man rides a horse while a man and a woman sit at a table and toast. The work offers a humorous glimpse into the societal expectations of women in the late 18th century. The etching, created in 1798, is part of a larger series and is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.