A painting on a similar theme to the Ackermann print was produced by Michael Angelo Hayes in 1842. The scene is India, as suggested by the palm trees on the right, but the 9th Lancers are on parade as if they were in Britain. The mounted officer is in a similar attitude to the Ackermann print, also on a black horse, perhaps because the CO, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell, had such a horse. The bridle is more ornate in this picture, having a red horsehair throat plume instead of black. But the rest of the details are correct, including the distinctive lance-cap, and the method of attaching the cap lines to the cap, similar to that shown in Mounted Officer 1835. The black cock-feather plume is wrong because the Dress Regulations demand horsehair plumes for hot climates. The pouch-belt is the same type as in the Ackermann print, which either reinforces the notion that the Herringbone lace with coloured stripe was the first pattern adopted with the new blue uniform, or that Hayes repeated the same error.
