This schematic representation of officer’s uniform is a copy made by Boris Mollo of a series devised by C Marcuard ‘according to the last Regulations’ in 1819. Marcuard was an officer attached to the Quartermaster General’s Department at Horse Guards. He reduced the key components of the uniforms to these square shapes, producing 146 schemes. This one, for the 1st Royal Scots, agrees with the dress uniform worn by Adjutant Wetherall in 1818. The scarlet coat has blue facings with a gold lace loop on the collar and four on the cuff. There are 11 buttons but it assumes the jacket to be buttoned over so that the gold laced blue lapels cannot be shown on this simplified ‘delineation’. The shako is similar to Wetherall’s, and the gold epaulette.
The regimental full dress embroidered coat was worn by the Duke of Kent when he was painted by Sir William Beechey in 1818, although it was based on information gained in 1814. It shows the embroidered loops on the buttoned-over coat rather than on the blue lapels.
