Stockport Troop 1833

The equestrian painting of Captain John Howard was copied for this engraving published by Thomas McLean of 26 Haymarket in July 1833. The print is dedicated to the Right Honourable George Harry, Lord Grey of Groby, Colonel of His Majesty’s Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry. It attributes the original painting to ‘Mr Spode’. The print gives a clearer idea of the pattern of uniform worn by the hussars of the Stockport Troop. Howard’s jacket and pelisse are frogged with 10 rows of silver cord. On the pelisse the ends of these cords have ‘caps and drops’ but the jacket appears to have a border framing the whole frogged area. The design is more like the undress hussar uniform of this period. There is a glimpse of the silver braid on the back of the pelisse which looks quite ornate.
The shako is the low bell-topped style adopted by the regular regiments of light cavalry in the 1830s. The badge on the front is a Maltese cross with no sign of the Prince of Wales plume. The white falling horsehair plume comes out of a plume holder that is gilt in the Spode painting, and has a red horsehair base. The figures in the background are officers but they do not have pelisses on their left shoulder like Captain Howard.

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