Prince Regent, March 1811

The Prince of Wales became Regent in Feb 1811 and declared the 10th Hussars a Royal regiment on 6 Mar. From that date they were ordered to change their facings from yellow to red. This print drawn by Charles Rosenberg and engraved by I C Stadler was published by Colnaghi & Co of 23 Cockspur Street, London, on 1 March 1811. The caption below the image says that it is the likeness of the Prince Regent of Great Britain from the original in the possession of H.R.H. The Prince is in the uniform of the 10th Hussars with a Troop of the same regiment in the middle distance led by a trumpeter. The scenery behind is of Brighton. The Prince has red facings but his uniform is laced and corded with gold. The regiment did not adopt gold lace until 1815 so the colouring of this print is wrong on that point. But the print is informative as far as the horse furniture, sword and sabretache are concerned. The sword is the regimental pattern that he presented to every officer of the 10th c1811 (and recalled when 26 of the officers were kicked out in 1814). The shabraque has gold lace and embroidery which should be silver. The sabretache is also wrongly coloured with gold lace but is similar to the Sabretache of 1815. Other states of this print exist with different colours. One print has the uniform as blue with yellow facings and silver lace but the shabraque and sabretache are in gold lace. Also there is a blue Garter sash across his chest instead of the white pouchbelt seen in this version.

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