Overall: 17cm (6.7in) x 22cm (8.7in)
Watercolour on paper heightened with body colour. Equestrian study of an officer in review order, his uniform comprising 1888 pattern black busby with red bag and caplines were looped up to the right shoulder, red jacket with multiple rows of looped braid, Austrian knot decoration to the sleeves, striped pantaloons, sword, sabretache and wrist gloves and knee boots. The officer’s charger furnished with throat plume, shabraque and black Ukranian lambskin saddle cloth.
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The Westmorland and Cumberland Hussars ranked seventeenth in yeomanry order of precedence. The regiment was formed in 1819 and by 1828 had six troops (including three from Cumberland). From the beginning, it was used to control civil disorder which remained the regiment’s focus for more than twenty years. In 1843 it officially became the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. The regiment was raised by the Henry Cecil Lowther (The Earl of Lonsdale) and was closely associated with the Lowther and Hassells families for its entire existence. It provided the 24th Company of the 8th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry for active service in the Boer War in 1900.