David Morier’s series of paintings of Other Ranks in the various regiments, commissioned by the Duke of Cumberland, includes this one from the Royal Collection, of the 9th Dragoons. Fortunately the image is clear enough to show this enlarged detail which shows the embroidery on the shabraque and holster cover. The private’s uniform is almost identical to the one shown in the 1742 print, with a clear view of the aiguillette which is depicted as silver. This would indicate that the button-hole loops are also silver, as is the lace on the edge of his tricorn hat.
The round-cornered shabraque is edged with white and blue, and has a regimental device of IX D on red surrounded by a wreath. The holster covers on the front also have a white and blue edge with King George II’s ‘GR’ cypher and IX D on the blue part of the edging. We cannot see his cuff or the front of his collar, but there would be buff patches on the front of the collar, and silver button loops in the shape of chevrons on his sleeve, with one chevron on the buff cuff. He wears buff gauntlets which cover the cuff. The butt of the musket rests in a leather holster and a strap from the saddle secures the barrel.
