Private with Officer’s Charger 1822

In this painting the private shows the back view of the blue uniform, with the black shako introduced for the 10th Hussars in 1820. The other ranks had a falling black horse-hair plume while the officers had a black cock’s feathers falling plume. The jacket is well decorated with yellow braid on the collar, cuffs and back seams, and the pelisse, also braided, has white fur edging. The trousers are pale blue with a double red stripe that has a red welt up the middle. Round his waist is a barrel sash with red cords. The white waist-belt supports a 1796 pattern light cavalry sword and a plain leather sabretache.
The officer’s grey charger is beautifully caparisoned in a scarlet shabraque which has broad gold lace around the edge traced with gold braid and finished with gold tassels at the points. The embroidery is mostly in silver wire thread incorporating the reverse GR cypher of King George IV as he had become since 1820. This style of shabraque can be seen in the painting of William Drummond. The leopard skin saddle cover has a red scalloped edge overlaid with a gold fringe. The harness and leather work is one of the earliest depictions of the distinctive 10th Hussars cowrie-shelled bridles. The decoration extends to the horses rump.

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