Types of the Bombay Army and Navy, No. VII

1888

Chromolithograph on paper

Print size: 13.25 x 19.75 in (33.7 x 50 cm)
Sheet size: 13.5 x 20.5 in (34.5 x 52 cm)
With Mount: 20 x 26.5 in (50.5 x 67 cm)

A superb costume plate of thirteen different ranks identified with descriptive text in the bottom margins. below.

5th BOMBAY CAVALRY (Late 1st Sind Horse) SOWAR (Trooper) Field Service Kit / 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 chromolithograph was distributed as a Supplement of The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, July 7, 1888.

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