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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: italwars on May 08, 2014, 09:02:52 PM

Title: Woodville's painting indian sowar identification
Post by: italwars on May 08, 2014, 09:02:52 PM

found on the web this beautiful painting
to which regiment could be belong this sowar being rescued by a British infantrymen ?
i particularly like the black-red turban (maybe because they are the colour of my favourite football team ;) ?)
and i would like to paint a similar TSTATF Cavalry unit for NWF.

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/misc/woodville1.jpg

thanks

Title: Re: Woodville's painting indian sowar identification
Post by: Plynkes on May 09, 2014, 12:45:36 AM

Hmmm. Dunno. Skinner's Horse wore pugris just like that for a bit (up to the mid 1890s), but they weren't lancers at that time. Caton Woodville could have made a mistake about that, I suppose, and painted a fellow in the new gear but with the old pugri and cummerbund.


There's also a Lovett plate of types with a fellow of the 5th Bombay Cavalry (Scinde Horse as was, and would be again) wearing one too, dating from the late 1880s. Don't think they'd have been lancers then though, either.


Sorry, that's all I got right now.