Samuel McPherson, Scottish soldier Size:L: 90 x 60cm passengers and boatmen in the

passengers and boatmen in the foreground

showing a woman fanning herself with one hand and holding a bunch of roses in the crook of her other arm

and his baby son who had never seen

View of London Wall

Samuel McPherson, Scottish soldier Size:L: 90 x 60cm passengers and boatmen in theSamuel McPherson, Scottish soldier, 1743. 'Samuel McPherson, corporal, in his highland ridgmentals [sic], the most active in the desersion [sic]. The posture in presenting his firelock at Capt Ball in Lady Wood, and was shot at the Tower, July 18 1743'. McPherson was a soldier in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). Having been ordered to London, some of the regimant's soldiers deserted after hearing a rumour that they were to be shipped out to