drawing
- Museum number
- 1900,0725.96
- Description
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Royal Horse Artillery, Woolwich; three figures, including one blowing a horn. 1825
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 149 millimetres
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Width: 139 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Catalogue entry from J.Kierkuc-Bielinski, 'George Scharf', exh. Soane Museum, 2009 (no. 3):
Scharf’s interest in uniforms, first developed whilst painting portraits of officers during the Napoleonic Wars and furthered when he enlisted with the British Army as a lieutenant of baggage in the Engineers, continued throughout his career as evidenced in this drawing which shows soldiers in the Royal Horse Artillery. Scharf has accurately shown the distinctive gold braiding of the Horse Gunners’ uniform. The Royal Horse Artillery played a decisive role in the victories over Napoleon. Even the French General Foy, who witnessed their effectiveness at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815, expressed his admiration for them: ‘In battle they [British gunners] display judicious activity, a perfect coup d'oeil, and stoical bravery’.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2009 Mar-Jun, London, Sir John Soane Museum, George Scharf
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,0725.96