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Creator:
Hunsley, William
Title(s):
Costumes of the Madras Army / drawn and colored by W. Hunsley.
Published/Created:
St. Thomas's Mount [Madras] : Printed by W. Porter, 1841.
Physical Description:
[40] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
UC485.I4 H86 1841+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lithographed throughout.
Plates are variously dated 1839-1841.
In two series, each with its own title page. At top of pages of first series: "Officers of the Madras Army"; at top of pages of second series: "Natives of the Madras Army."
Index to British military costume prints, 1500-1914, 472
Hiler, H. Bibliography of costume, p. 453
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 1505
BAC: British Art Center missing two plates as listed in the Index to British military prints: Conductor of Ordnance and Surgeon
Subject Terms:
East India Company. Army. Madras Army -- Uniforms.
Great Britain. Army -- Uniforms -- Pictorial works.
Military uniforms in art.
Porter, Wm. -- Printer.
Soldiers in art.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1841.
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