The Indian Native Army

Circa 1900

Chromolithograph on paper

Print Size: 10.75 x 27.25 in (27 x 69 cm)
With Mount: 17 x 33.5 in (43 x 85 cm)

Chromolithographed in Holland by Emrik and Binger, London

The descriptive text in the lower margins below identifies a superb costume plate of various ranks.

Front row, left to right: 1st Madras Native Infantry Sepoy (Private), 2nd Bombay Native Infantry or 2nd Belooch Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own) Sepoy, 7th Bombay N. Infantry Sepoy, 4th Madras Light Cavalry Prince of Wale's Own Native Officer, Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners Native Officer, 7th Bengal Native Infantry (Duke of Connaught's Own) Officer, 14th Bengal Lancers Native Officer, 1st Bombay Lancers Native Officer, 20th Bengal (Punjab) N. Infantry (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Sepoy, 2nd Goorkhas (Prince of Wales Own) Sepoy, 15th Bengal N. Infantry (Loodianah Sikhs) Sepoy.

Back row, left to right: 1st Bengal Cavalry Sowar, (Trooper), 10th Duke of Cambridge's Own Bengal Lancers Sowar, 1st Punjab Cavalry Sowar, The Central India Horse Sowar, Corps of Guides (Queen's Own) British Officer, 3rd Bengal Cavalry Sowar, 6th Punjab Infantry British Officer, 13th Bengal Lancers (Duke of Connaughts) Sowar, 12th Bengal Lancers British Officer, The Viceroy's Body Guard British Officer, Corps of Guides Native Officer, 3rd Madras Light Cavalry Sowar, 10th Bengal Lancers Camel Sowar, The Viceroy's Body Guard Sowar, 2nd Bombay Lancers Sowar

Richard Simkin (1850 - 1926)
Richard Simkin was born on 5 November 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 25 June 1926, at his house in Herne Bay, at 7 Cavensigh Street.

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