Set of Two Prints Related to Military Costumes
a) Richard Simkin
Military Type No.167 (Types of Imperial Service Troops, India)
1901
Chromolithograph on paper
Without mount: 9.6 x 14.3 in (24.5 x 36.5 cm)
With mount: 15.9 x 20.8 in (40.5 x 53 cm)
Supplement to The Army and Navy Gazette, Saturday, November 2nd, 1901
A superb costume plate of four different ranks identified with descriptive text in the bottom margins below. Front row, left to right: Commandant - Rampur Lancers, Rissaldar - Bhopal Lancers, Commandant - Nabha Lancers, Rissaldar - Kapurthala Lancers.
b) Richard Simkin
Military Type No.163 (Types of British Officers of Native Indian Army Cavalry Regiments)
1901
Chromolithograph on paper
Without mount: 9.6 x 14.3 in (24.5 x 36.5 cm)
With mount: 15.9 x 20.8 in (40.5 x 53 cm)
Supplement to The Army and Navy Gazette, Saturday, July 6th, 1901
A superb costume plate of seven different ranks identified with descriptive text in the bottom margins below. Front row, left to right: 6th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Bengal Cavalry, The Central India Horse, 13th (Duke of Connaught's) Bengal Lancers, 2nd Madras Lancers, 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry (Queen's Own), 5th Punjab Cavalry, 18th Bengal Lancers.
Richard Simkin
He was born on 5 November, 1850 in Herne Bay, Kent, England. He grew up in Aldershot, Hampshire, and married his wife, Harriet, in 1880. It is also thought he was a volunteer in the Artist's Rifles. The War Office hired him to create recruiting posters. He is perhaps most known for his Army regiments, which included Yeomanry and Colonial regiments, and a weekly addition to the Army and Navy Gazette. He developed a series Types of the Indian Army for the Gazette in 1901. He got a lot of knowledge from the Colonial and India Exhibition in 1886. Richard Simkin painted hundreds of watercolours depicting Army uniforms and scenes from Army life and conflicts during a 50-year span. Many of these works of art may be seen in regimental museums and messes. Simkin also provided pictures to The Army and Navy Gazette, Boy's Own Magazine, and The Graphic, and many of his works were used in Raphael Tuck and Sons' books and publications. Richard Simkin died on 25 June, 1926, at his house in Herne Bay, at 7 Cavensigh Street. Cranston Fine Arts has replicated several of Richard Simkin's antique prints as prints, which are available on our websites, as well as many genuine antique prints that are difficult to locate these days.
(Set of two)
These works will be shipped unframed
NON-EXPORTABLE
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