Officer 1792

The artist Edward Dayes produced engravings of many of the regiments of the British Army including an officer and a private of a battalion company of the King’s Regiment. The officer wears a gold laced scarlet coat with dark blue facings. His tricorn hat has developed into a bicorn with gold lace edges and black cockade and short black plume. The turned-up collar of his coat is higher than before, edged in white and has a gold laced button-hole loop. There is a gold epaulette on his right shoulder denoting rank below major. The red on the top of the epaulette suggests that the regimental badge was embroidered on it. The officer has a gilt gorget at his throat, attached with blue ribbons.
His shoulder belt supports a sword, worn over the coat as from 1788, and having a regimental plate with the badge of the White Horse on a red background. The crimson silk sash around his waist was another indicator of his officer status. The white waistcoat has gilt buttons, and he has white breeches worn with black gaiters.

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