Charles Gold's Oriental Drawings, 1806 (India)

[Druzhina]

Charles Gold's Oriental Drawings, 1806 (India)
. Including Mysore Regular Infantry,  Sepoys of the Madras Establishment,
. Officers and Private of the Gun Lascar Corps, Madras Establishment,
. A Naigue of the Bombay Grenadier Battalion
. and infantry & cavalry in front of Tipoo's Palace (Mysore).

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Charles Gold's Oriental Drawings, 1806

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers

[Techno]

Excellent.
If Osprey had been publishing books as far back as this, this chap would have probably been the illustrator.
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Lovely sites.

[Hertsblue]

Mankind has devised some bizarre forms of headgear over the centuries, but the Madras Establishment comes close to taking the palm. What fevered imagination dreamed up those hats?

All credit to the artist for managing to capture them in all their absurdity.