Drum Horse of the Scots' Greys
Date1915
Artist
Edward Penfield
(American painter, illustrator, 1866–1925)
Illustration CitationCover for Collier's Weekly, May 15, 1915
MediumGouache, watercolor, and ink on laid paper
Dimensionssheet: 15 1/8 × 11 5/16 in. (38.4 × 28.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-112
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextEdward Penfield rendered the military drum horse which carried the heavy kettle drums during parades and pageants. Astride is a member of The Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century.