Untitled [Set of 2 prints on Indian Military Costumes]

a) Richard Simkin
Types of the Indian Native Army, Madras (Military Types – No. 160)
6 April 1901
Chromolithograph on paper
Print Size: 9.75 x 14 in (24.7 x 35.8 cm)
With Mount: 15.5 x 20.5 in (39.5 x 52.2 cm)

PUBLISHED
The Army & Navy Gazette, Saturday, 6 April 1901

From left to right: Sepoy – 1st Madras Infantry (Pioneers), Jamadar – 14th Madras Infantry, Jamadar – Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen’s Own), Sepoy – 31st Madras Infantry (6th Burma Battalion), Subadar – 1st Madras Lancers, Jamadar – Governor’s Body Guard, Trooper – 2nd Madras

b) Richard Simkin
Types of Imperial Service Troops, India (Military Types – No. 160)
2nd November 1901
Chromolithograph on paper
Print Size: 9.25 x 14 in (23.5 x 35.8 cm)
With Mount: 15.5 x 20.5 in (39.5 x 52.2 cm)

PUBLISHED
The Army & Navy Gazette, Saturday, 2 November 1901

From left to right: Commandant – Rampur Lancers, Rissaldar – Bhopal Lancers, Commandant – Nabha Lancers, Rissaldar – Kapurthala Lancers

Richard Simkin (1850 - 1926)
Richard Simkin was born on November 5th, 1850 in Herne Bay, Kent, England. He grew up in Aldershot, Hampshire, married his wife, Harriet, in 1880, and 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 of ‘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 June 25, 1926, at his house in Herne Bay, at 7 Cavensigh Street. Cranston Fine Arts has replicated several of Richard Simkin's works.

(Set of two)

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