The cut of the “hussar” type uniforms assigns this work to the early nineteenth century. The Napoleonic Wars brought widespread adoption of the “hussar” dress of Hungary into vogue throughout Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe and Britain and this was soon aped in the United States, with various volunteer light cavalry units adopting hussar uniforms, including fur busby caps and fur-lined dolmans, with names such as the Philadelphia Troop of Hussars, Baltimore Hussars, Boston Hussars and so on.
Note the stylistic flourish of the tips [drags] of the scabbards that look like they end in rollers that are likely reflecting reality as such did exist.
Item Date: 1805-1815
Measurement: Frame: 9.5" x 11.5"; View: 8" x 10"
Material: Watercolor on paper, housed in tiger maple frames
Item Condition: Very good
Price: $3,850
SKU 233-60
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