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    18th Century Material Culture

    The British Army


    His Majestys Foot Guards

    H.M. Foot Guards


    by David Morier 1751

    Grenadiers, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards; and Corporal, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
    by David Morier 1751
    (The Royal Collection)

    Detail: Fifer and Drummer, Foot Guards


    by David Morier 1751
    (The Royal Collection)

    H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards

    Captain and Lieutenant Colonel Rowland Alston, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by British School c. 1758 - 1762
    (Private Collection)

    Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst at the Battle of Signal Hill (Flagsta Hill), September 15, 1762
    by Robert Edge Pine
    (Fort Ligonier Museum)

    Captain & Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Robert Edge Pine c. 1766
    (Mead Art Museum, Amherst University)

    Captain & Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    after Robert Edge Pine c. 1766
    (Library and Archives of Canada)

    Elizabeth Patterson Amherst


    after Alan Ramsey
    (Library and Archives of Canada)

    GB (Possibly Ensign George Bristow), 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Richard Crosse c. 1781
    (Bonhams Auction House)

    Colonel George Kein Haywardh Coussmaker of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Sir Joshua Reynolds

    Colonel George Kein Haywardh Coussmaker of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Sir Joshua Reynolds

    Captain and Lt. Colonel Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, K.B., 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by David Martin 1783
    (National Museums of Scotland)

    Captain and Lieutenant Colonel John Thomas de Burgh of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by George Romney c. 1770s
    (The Earl and Countess of Harewood and Treustees of the Harewood House Trust)

    Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dowdswell of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Joseph Blackburn c. 1776 - 1777
    (Guards Museum of London)

    Ensign James Du, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by John Russell c. 1769 - 1770

    Major - General Alexander Dury, Lieutenant - Colonel, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Sir Joshua Reynolds
    (John Mitchell Fine Paintings)

    Archibald Edmondstone (1754 - 1780)


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards

    Virginia Colonial Governor Francis Fauquier of the 1st Foot Guards


    by Unknown c. 1751

    Captain and Lieutenant Colonel the Honorable Charles Fitzroy, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by the Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1760 - 1761
    (Sothebys)

    Captain and Lieutenant Colonel the Honorable Charles Fitzroy, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by the Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1760 - 1761
    (Sothebys)

    Major General Prince William Henry, Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, First Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
    by Hugh Douglas Hamilton c. 1771
    (Private Collection)

    Major General Prince William Henry, Colonel 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, First Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
    by Douglas Hamilton c. 1771
    (Private Collection)

    Major General Prince William Henry, Colonel 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, First Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
    after Douglas Hamilton c. 1771
    (Private Collection)

    Colonel Prince William Henry, First Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh , H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by British School c. 1772
    (Royal Collection)

    General Prince William Henry, First Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh


    by British School c. 1772
    (Royal Collection)

    Prince William Henry


    Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Bonhams Auction House)

    Lieutenant and Captain Thomas (Hanmer) Hervey, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by John Smart 1764
    (National Trust)

    Captain and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas (Hanmer) Hervey, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by John Smart 1774
    (The National Trust)

    Lord George Augustus Viscount Howe


    by Sir Joshua Reynolds
    (Private Collection)

    Mourning Pendant for Lord George Augustus Viscount Howe


    Lord Viscount Howe, Killed near Tianderoga, July 6, 1758 38
    (Fort Ticonderoga)

    Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Nugent, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Thomas Gainsborough 1764
    (Beaverbrook Foundation)

    Ensign John Scawen and his Sister, Winifred Scawen, of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Johann Zoany c. 1768 - 1769

    Captain John Stables of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by George Romney 1776

    Lieutenant and captain Frederick Thomas, H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    by English School 1773
    (Private Collection)

    Lieutenant and Captain Edmund Winn of the 1st Foot Guards


    by Henry Pickering c. 1746
    (Nostell Priorty and Parkland, The National Trust)

    Unknown Ocer of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by John Smart 1774
    (Christies Auction House)

    Unknown Ocer , Possibly 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by J.Nixon c. 1775

    Unknown Ocer of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    after Jeremiah Mayer c. 1775 - 1780
    (Christies Auction House)

    Unknown Ocer of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Richard Cosway c. 1775

    A View from Richmond on Staten Island 1777


    by Lieutenant and Caprain Patrick Bellew of the Grenadier Co., 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (The British Library)

    A View from Richmond on Staten Island 1777


    by Lieutenant and Caprain Patrick Bellew of the Grenadier Co., 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (The British Library)

    A View from Richmond on Staten Island 1777


    by Lieutenant and Caprain Patrick Bellew of the Grenadier Co., 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (The British Library)

    Assault on Cliveden in Germantown


    Commissioned in 1787 by Sir George Osborn, Commander of the Guards Grenadier Company

    Assault on Cliveden in Germantown


    Commissioned in 1787 by Sir George Osborn, Commander of the Guards Grenadier Company

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK - Clive Emerson Photograph)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Other Ranks Coat


    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Charles Wade Paget Collection - Berrington Hall Heredofrshire, UK)

    Musicians Coat
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (National Army Museum)

    Musicians Coat
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (National Army Museum)

    Musicians Coat
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (National Army Museum - James Kochan Photograph)

    Musicians Coat
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (National Army Museum)

    Musicians Coat
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (National Army Museum - James Kochan Photograph)

    Musicians Coat
    1st Regiment of Foot Guards
    (National Army Museum - James Kochan Photograph)

    Cartridge Pouch Badge


    H.M. Foot Guards
    (Don Troiani)

    H.M. 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards


    The Coldstream Guards

    GEORGE, IId
    by Sir John Grin c. 1759
    (The Tate Collection)

    GEORGE, IId
    by Robert Edge Pine c. 1759
    (Philip Mould)

    GEORGE, IId
    by Robert Edge Pine c. 1759
    (Philip Mould)

    British Grenadiers in the Allied Army (Likely Coldstream Guards)


    attributed toThomas Sandby 1748
    (The Royal Collection)

    British Grenadiers in the Allied Army (Likely Coldstream Guards)


    attributed toThomas Sandby 1748
    (The Royal Collection)

    British Grenadiers in the Allied Army (Likely Coldstream Guards)


    attributed toThomas Sandby 1748
    (The Royal Collection)

    British Grenadiers in the Allied Army (Likely Coldstream Guards)


    attributed toThomas Sandby 1748
    (The Royal Collection)

    British Grenadiers in the Allied Army (Likely Coldstream Guards)


    attributed toThomas Sandby 1748
    (The Royal Collection)

    The March of the Guard to Finchley


    by William Hogarth c. 1750
    (The Foundling Museum)

    Ensign Lord George Henry Lennox, 2nd (Coldstream) Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Pompeo Batonis c. 1754 - 1756

    Captain Robert Orme of the 2nd (Coldstream) Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1756

    Captain Robert Orme of the 2nd (Coldstream) Regiment of Foot Guards


    after Thomas Hudson

    Richard Bennett Lloyd, Coldstream Guards


    by Benjamin West
    (Wye House)

    Richard Bennett Lloyd, Coldstream Guards


    by Benjamin West
    (Wye House)

    Captain Richard Bennett Lloyd of H.M. 2nd Foot Guards - Coldstream Guards
    c. 1773 - 1775
    (Christopher Bryant)

    Captain Richard Bennett Lloyd of H.M. 2nd Foot Guards - Coldstream Guards
    c. 1773 - 1775
    (Christopher Bryant)

    Captain and Lieutenant Colonel the Honorable Joseph Yorke, Coldstream Guards
    by Jean Baptiste Perronneau c. 1749- 1751

    Richmond Lodge
    by Thomas & Paul Sandby c. 1770
    (The Royal Collection)

    Richmond Lodge
    by Thomas & Paul Sandby c. 1770
    (The Royal Collection)

    Basket Hilted Hanger as Illustrated on the British Grenadier

    Basket Hilted Hanger as Illustrated on the British Grenadier

    Belt Plate
    2nd Foot (Coldstream) Guards

    Belt Plate 2nd Foot Guards (Coldstream Guards)


    Excavated in New York

    Belt Plate 2nd Foot Guards (Coldstream Guards)


    Excavated in New York

    Ocers Gilt Repousse Button


    2nd (Coldstream) Foot Guards
    Found in Canada. An Earlier Pre-War Pattern
    (Don Troiani)

    Ocers Gilt Repousse Button


    2nd (Coldstream) Foot Guards
    Excavated Near Williamsburg, Virginia
    (Don Troiani)

    Pewter Button, H.M. Coldstream Guards


    Found in Lower Manhattan, New York City c. 1776 - 1783
    (Colonial Williamsburg)

    Pewter Button, H.M. Coldstream Guards


    Found in Lower Manhattan, New York City c. 1776 - 1783
    (Colonial Williamsburg)

    A Squall
    after John Collet c. 1775
    (The Royal Collection)

    H.M. 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards

    Lieutenant and Captain Alexander Campbell, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Francis Cotes 1763
    (National Galleries of Scotland)

    Captain Francis Carr Clarke, 3rd Foot Guards


    by Jeremiah Mayer c. 1769

    C.D. Gordon, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards

    Capt. and Lt. Col. Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries , 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Anne Forbes 1772
    (Great Steward of Scotlands Dumfries House Trust)

    Countess Margaret, wife of Capt. and Lt. Col. Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries
    by Anne Forbes 1772
    (Great Steward of Scotlands Dumfries House Trust)

    Lieutenant and Captain the Honorable Thomas Needham, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Thomas Gainsborough c. 1768
    (The National Trust)

    Sir George Osborn, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards


    by George Romney 1778
    (Private Collection)

    Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington, 3rd Foot Guards


    by George Stubbs c. 1769
    (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

    Captain Thomas Twistleton c. 1769


    3rd Regiment of Foot Guards

    Ensign Thomas Wallace, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards


    by Allen Ramsay 1750
    (National Trust for Scotland)

    Second Major William Whitmore of Lower Slaughter and Apley, Bridgnorth of H.M. 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
    by Joyce Aris c. 1750/ 1751
    (Shropshire Regimental Museum)

    A Monument erected over the Grave of Mr. Allen Junior, in the Church Yard of St. Mary, Newington: ...
    Engraved for the Oxford Magazine
    (Lewis Walpole Library)

    A Monument erected over the Grave of Mr. Allen Junior, in the Church Yard of St. Mary, Newington: ...
    Engraved for the Oxford Magazine
    (Lewis Walpole Library)

    CORPORAL CARTOUCH teaching MISS CAMP-LOVE her Manual Exercise


    by Sayer & Bennett after John Collet 1780
    (The British Museum)

    CORPORAL CARTOUCH teaching MISS CAMP-LOVE her Manual Exercise


    by Sayer & Bennett after John Collet 1780
    (The British Museum)

    Dress Coat of Captain the Honorable Thomas Needham


    3rd Regiment of Foot Guards c. 1768

    Gilt Brass Gorget Worn by Captain Sir Francis Carr Clerke, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, 1777
    Killed at Saratoga in 1777 while serving as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General John Burgoyne
    (National Army Museum)

    Belt Plate
    H.M. 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
    (Don Troiani)

    Pewter Button, H.M. 3rd Scots Guards


    Found in New York City c. 1776 - 1783
    (Colonial Williamsburg)

    Pewter Button, H.M. 3rd Scots Guards


    Found in New York City c. 1776 - 1783
    (Colonial Williamsburg)

    Musicians Cap
    3rd Regiment of Foot Guards

    Miscellaneous

    George III Reviewing the Brigade of Guards, March 19, 1776


    by Francis Sartorius
    (Sir Richard Osborn, Baronet)

    George III Reviewing the Brigade of Guards, March 19, 1776


    by Francis Sartorius
    (Sir Richard Osborn, Baronet)

    George III Reviewing the Brigade of Guards, March 19, 1776


    by Francis Sartorius
    (Sir Richard Osborn, Baronet)

    George III Reviewing the Brigade of Guards, March 19, 1776


    by Francis Sartorius
    (Sir Richard Osborn, Baronet)

    Unknown Ocer of H.M. Foot Guards


    by English School c. 1769 - 1778
    (Roseberys)

    Unknown Ocer of H.M. Foot Guards


    by English School c. 1780
    (Private Collection)

    Unknown Ocer of H.M. Foot Guards


    by the Circle of Richard Crosse c. 1775
    (Bonhams Auction House)

    Unknown Grenadier Ocer of H.M. Foot Guards


    by Andrew Plimer c. 1785
    (The Royal Collection)

    Brass Military Insignia


    (Elkanah Deane House)

    Acknowledgements
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    Resource Center greatly acknowledges
    our friend and colleague, Dr. Gregory
    Urwin of Temple University, for his
    exemplary series Redcoat Images.
    Having had the honor to work with
    Dr. Urwin and personally contribute to
    his series in the past, we are pleased to
    showcase some of the images that he
    has featured in this slideshow. We are
    also eternally grateful to our many other
    friends and colleagues who have also
    shared with us their images of the
    British Soldier over the years.

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