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This engraving is part of a series of 29 plates produced between 1799 and 1801 by J Carpenter of Old Bond Street. They are known as the British Military Library. Number 26, published in October 1800, economises by splitting the page in two with a 10th Light Dragoon officer on one side and a officer of the 8th LD on the other. The uniform is very much simplified, but the shabraque and sabretache have some interesting detail. The helmet shows a dark blue or black turban, and the badge on the wrong side, where a white over red plume should be. There is a rolled blue cloak on the back of the saddle, and the embroidery on the shabraque is a Plume of Feathers with crown on the rear part, and a cypher and crown on the front. The cypher is probably the Prince’s GP rather than the King’s GR cypher.
The caption below the image describes the uniform as, ‘Dark blue Cloathing, deep yellow Facings, white Lace with a green Stripe.’ The white lace is a puzzle because officers had silver lace. And there is no other evidence that the men had a green stripe in their white lace. This mounted figure is an officer, a fact that is backed up by the other figures in the series who are all officers. Also he has a crimson sash around his waist, the distinction of officers. |
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