Object number
T.292
Title
The Presentation of Colours to the 2nd Regiment Royal East India Volunteers by Lady Jane Dundas at Lord’s Ground: Consecration of Colours by Lady Jane Dundas
Date
1797-06-29
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Copyright Commonwealth Relations Office (according to Card Index)
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Size
45 x 65 cm
Description
Military colours being presented at Lord's Cricket Ground (Dorset Square). Soldiers in dress uniform stand to attention on the left with civilians in their finery observing on the right.
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While the country was under threat of invasion from France, the first Lord’s Ground in Dorset Square proved a popular place on which to stage military parades. There are two images by Henry Matthews in which the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the Royal East India Volunteers were presented with their colours in 1797. Two years later it was the turn of the Bank of England Volunteers; an oil painting of this occasion was commissioned from Thomas Stothard and hangs in the Bank of England museum.
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