Set of two prints of Bombay and Madras Army

a) Alfred Crowdy Lovett
The Madras Army, and Troops Under the Government of India
Circa 1888
Chromolithograph on paper
14.5 x 19 in (36.83 x 48.26 cm)

Rare supplement of the Madras Army:

Front row, left to right: Governor of Madras' bodyguard; Queen's Own Madras sapper in field uniform; Queen's Own Madras officer, review order; Madras pioneer; Sowar bodyguard of the Governor of Madras; Central India horse, Russuldar, (Sikh); No 4 battery Hyderabad contingent, drill order; 1st infantry Hyderabad contingent, subadar major; Central India horse, trooper in field service kit; 1st Hyderabad contingent, cavalry, jemadar. Back row, left to right: 1st Madras lancers; Camel orderly, 3rd cavalry, Hyderabad contingent; 2nd cavalry, Hyderabad contingent.

Published in The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper

b) Alfred Crowdy Lovett
Types of the Bombay Army
Circa 1888
Chromolithograph on paper
15.5 x 20.5 in (39.37 x 52.07 cm)

From left to right:
5th BOMBAY CAVALRY (Late 1st Sind Horse) SOWAR (Trooper) Field Service Kit.br.No. 1 BOMBAY MOUNTAIN BATTERY HAVILDAR (Sergeant) Review Order
4th BOMBAY CAVALRY (Poonah Horse) RESSALDAR Review Order
4th BOMBAY CAVALRY (Poonah Horse) SOWAR (Trooper) Review Order
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF BOMBAYS BODY GUARD DAFFADAR (Sergeant) Full Dress
No. 1 BOMBAY MOUNTAIN BATTERY JEMADAR (Native Officer) Field Service Order
2nd BOMBAY LANCERS TRUMPETER Field Marching Order
7th BOMBAY INFANTRY DRUMMER Field Service Order
1st BOMBAY GRENADIERS HAVILDAR (Sergent) Marching Order
1st BOMBAY LANCERS SOWAR (Trooper) Field Service Order
7th BOMBAY INFANTRY DRUM-MAJOR Review Order
BOMBAY SAPPERS AND MINERS SUBADAR-MAJOR Review Order
DUKE OF CONNAUGHTS OWN BELOOCH REGIMENT NAIK (Corporal) Marching Order

Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), the son of James C and Ellen H Lovett. was a military artist best known for his watercolours and other images of the varied uniforms of the different armies of British India. When this lithograph was published, he was shown with the rank of Lieutenant, but as his work continued over the next several decades, this designation would change, right up to Colonel and then Brigadier General. This image certainly captures the spirit and colour of the Indian Army at the height of the Empire. This early full-colour chromolithograph was made during an era when images in the illustrated journals were strictly black-and-white wood engravings. Then, just a few years before this image was made, several British journals began to distribute full-colour lithographs in one or two issues a year (work on these had to be begun months in advance, and very often their production had to be contracted out to one of the few firms capable of producing the quality of coloured images needed). This lithograph was distributed as a Supplement of The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, July 7, 1888.

(Set of two)

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