Military Uniform Caricatures

The following is a selection of some of the beautiful illustrations taken from a recent post on one of my favourite blogs BibliOdyssey. I attempted to find more of these dapper Military uniforms, but sadly, the archive from which these caricatures originate, the 'Watercolors site' from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is maddening to navigate.

The Oxford Hussars Levée dress

Royal Artillery (soldier decked out in tropical kit)

Indian 'Cavalree' Skinners Horse

The Cameronians were a Scottish rifle regiment (1881) in the British Army

Oesterreich-Ungarische Armee 5o. Husaren-Regt. (Hussar)

Oesterreich-Ungarische Armee Ungarische-Leib-Garde

A Red Lancer

The Doyle Diary

Facsimiles of the sketchbook / dairy of Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Arthur Conan Doyle. During his stay throughout 1889 at Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum in Scotland.

"Keep steadily in view that this Book is ascribed wholly to the produce of a MADMAN. Whereabouts would you say was the deficiency of Intellect? or depraved taste? If in the whole Book you can find a single evidence of either, mark it and record it against me." - Charles Altamont Doyle, 8th March 1889. (Pencil annotation, top left, frontispiece)

(click for high-res versions)

The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery: With a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle By Michael Baker. (1978 Paddington Press UK)