Overall: 78cm (30.7in) x 68cm (26.7.in)
Mezzotint with engraving and etching. Equestrian portrait of George IV as Prince of Wales reviewing of troops, and attended by Lord Heathfield, General Turner, Colonel Bloomfield, and Baron Eben, Colonel Quinton. Published by John Singleton Copley after his painting of the same for Colnaghi & Co. Printsellers, Cockspur Street, Haymarket.’ Contained in giltwood frame.
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Copley depicts the Prince of Wales gesturing towards his own regiment, the 10th Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons. Behind him a group of officers favoured at the time Copley produced his painting (1804) comprise Captain Baron von Eben of the 10th Light Dragoons, who wears a distinctive columnar ‘mirleton’ hat. To his left is General Lord Francis Augustus Elliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield and the son of the defender of Gibraltar during the Great Siege of 1782; Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Bloomfield of the Royal Horse Artillery, who saw action at the battle of Vinegar Hill in June 1798, and served in Newfoundland and Gibraltar, rides behind wearing the Tarleton helmet; Brigadier-General Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner is seen on the right of the engraving, and is best remembered for escorting the Rosetta Stone from Egypt to England. Colonel George Augustus Quinton, commnding the 10th Light Dragoons, can be seen in the middle distance, at the head of the hussar troop that appears between the prince’s horse’s legs.