Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 3) (London: Smith and Son, 1831)

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full of liquor, in the other ; a second party is near the chimney.
Various utensils are distributed on the fore-ground.
Yst. 9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in.—P.
Collection of the Marquis Brunoy, . 1749. . 3400/s. 136k
67. The Miseries of War. A band of robbers in a farm
house, pillaging its inhabitants. The principal group occupies
the centre of the fore-ground, and represents a robber with a
gun, standing in a threatening attitude over a peasant, who is
on his knees before him ; at the same instant his wife has just
arrived in haste with a purse of money, which she holds out to
the villain. Two others of the gang are binding a man ; and a
third is catching one that was about to escape. Others are
employed in stripping the house of its provisions, or binding
their prisoners. An excellent example.
1/7. 7 in. by 2/7. 1 in.—P. Worth 250k
Engraved by J. Tardieu.
Collection of the Count de Vence, . 1750. . 1110/s. 44k
Now in the collection of the Marquis of Bute, at Luton.

68. Marauders pillaging Peasants. The view represents a
village, into which a party of lawless banditti have entered, and
are misusing and robbing the peaceful peasantry; amongst
them may be observed an elderly man on his knees, imploring
mercy of a thief, who stands over him with a gun, while a fe-
male with extended arms is endeavouring to deprecate his
threats.
Engraved by Le Bas.
69. A View on the Sea-shore. Close to the front is a group
of four fishermen round a tub, out of which one of them is
stooping to list a fish ; the two others appear to be in conversa-
tion ; near them is a boy, emptying a basket of fish on the sands.
At some distance off, on the left, are three more fishermen, and
beyond them is a light-house erected, on a hill.
2 st. 10|m, by 3 ft. 9| in.—C.