Overall: 55cm (21.5in) x 42cm (16.5in)
Watercolour, heightened with body colour on heavy duty Bristol Paper. Contained in original gilt wood frame; the reverse bearing the trade label of framer Hugh Richards, whose name appears in Kent's Trade Directory of Cities of London and Westminster, & Borough of Southwark, for the Year 1794 as a Carver & Glass-grinder, of 279, The Strand, London.
A contemporary manuscript label to the reverse identifies the subject as Charles Chappell of the. Oxfordshire Volunteers, not to be confused with the city of Oxford Volunteers or Oxfordshire Militia (1757-1816). The Oxfordshire Volunteers were formed in 1808 as a voluntary force to quell civil unrest and for the purposes of defence against invasion by Napoleonic France. They were disbanded in 1813.