Overall: 58cm (23in) x 39cm (15.5in)
Watercolour on paper decoupage. Study of Sergeant Major and Drum Major of the 89th Foot.
Framed and glazed.
In 1831, this Irish infantry unit returned to England after sixteen years in India. Two years later, Princess Victoria - the heiress to the throne - in her first public engagement, presented the 89th with new Colours. In honour of this, it added her coronet to its badge. Under the 1881 reforms, it was merged into The Royal Irish Fusiliers.