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Royal Horse Artillery – Historic Print

Royal Horse Artillery, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph
Royal Horse Artillery, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique lithograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare antique lithograph captures Royal Horse Artillery in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A hand-colored lithograph titled *Royal Horse Artillery* shows mounted British gunners, a unit whose defining feature was speed. Formed in 1793, the Royal Horse Artillery kept its field guns and their crews moving at the pace of cavalry, so the horses were as essential as the cannon. The card dates the print only to about the mid-19th century, a period when British artillery uniforms and the teams that pulled the guns were changing. Hand coloring was a common way to add detail to such prints, and the painted tunics and harness show how the regiment wanted to be seen.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-col.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Uniforms, Military--ca. mid-19th c.; Armies--Gt. Britain; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,061 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130989

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