The British Army in 1792: the Uniform Plates of James Hewgill

In February 1792 Captain James Hewgill - an officer in the Coldstream Guards Regiment - published a series of pictures, representing each regiment of the British army. The images show two figures for each regiment and were by E. Dayes - at that time the official draughtsman of the Duke of York and color tinted by the famous English artist, Joseph Mallard William Turner, who was only 17 years old at the time. It is not known if more than 18 images were made from 1792-1793.

These drawings originally appeared on line in German by our partner, Napoleon Online and are used with permission of the Universit�ts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. Please note that Markus Stein holds the copyright on all of these images.

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1st Regiment of Foot Guards: Officer and NCO 1st Regiment of Foot Guards: Grenadier NCO and Soldier 1st Regiment of Foot Guards: Grenadier Drummer & Soldier       Coldstream Guards: Officer and NCO Coldstream Guards: Grenadier NCO and Soldier Coldstream Guards: Grenadier Drummer & Soldier       3rd Regiment of Foot Guards: Officer and NCO 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards: Grenadier NCO and Soldier 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards: Grenadier Drummer & Soldier       1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier 2nd (Queens Royal) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier       4th (Kings Own) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier 5th (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier 6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier     7th (Royal Fuzileers) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier 8th (Kings) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier Ninth (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot Officer and Soldier

Placed on the Napoleon Series: October 2006