Artist's depiction of Arent Schuyler de Peyster. Printed on front: "Arent Schuyler dePeyster." Handwritten on back: "dePeyster, Arent Schuyler. Major & Lt. Col. 8th Reg. of foot. Commanded at Michilimacmac, & at Detroit during Am. Revolution. Afterward, Col. 1st Dumfries (Scotch) Volunteers, 1796, & during the wars growing out of the French Rev., to whom Rob. Burns, a private in his reg., addressed his poem on 'Life' 1796."
