The sowar, or Trooper, in this naïve painting shows useful detail of the dress uniform worn by the rank-and-file. The headdress is a peakless shako clearly showing the number 7 on a red centre of the star badge. The red and white horsehair plume is large, and droops lower in this picture than would be practical. The white metal chin scales are attached to flower-shaped bosses. White cap-lines wind twice around the shako going under the right arm to hook onto the jacket.
The French grey jacket has orange facings and white braid frogging across the chest, and white braiding on the collar and cuffs. On each shoulder is a brass shoulder scale which differs from the NCO Jacket 1825 of the 6th BLC, which has cloth shoulder straps. The waist girdle is yellow and crimson striped, and he wears a plain white leather pouch-belt on his left shoulder. The French grey trousers have a white stripe down each side. This would have been a recent change from the white breeches and jackboots worn in the 1820s. Later prints and paintings show that the trousers were dark blue.
The horse furniture consists of a brown saddle and bridle with a valise strapped to the back of the saddle. The end of the valise has a brass button in the middle of the roundel. He is armed with a sword and two pistols which are in holsters on the front of the saddle. He does not have a carbine, but there were 15 men in each Troop classed as skirmishers who carried carbines. The regiment was made up of 6 Troops, each consisting of a subadar, a jemadar, 5 havildars, 4 naiks, a trumpeter and 70 sowars.
