Help to identify Print and artist

[bigduke6]

Have had this print since i started collecting militaria it has had many frames and hung on a few walls, am looking to put it back in the original surround and frame but have never known anything about it. Thought the 3 DG may be 3rd Dragoon gaurds (this is not clear on the pictures below) but is behind the rider and looks like part of the saddle.

Am looking for any info regarding regiment , and the artist, it is signed but cannot make out the artist, above this signiture is the original symbol used as a signiture.

Published in Manchester 1879.

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[Freebooter]

Hello BigDukes,
Great pic. And such a romantic rootin tootin period of history. I love the 1800s, especially 1800s cavalry.

I believe his name is E. Thompson, possibly "Ernest" or something or maybe its an abgbreviated first name.

But being a student of U.S./C.S. Cavalry of the 1860s, and U.S. Cavalry later, and by then most of the world's cavalry was more or less outfitted the same, I can tell you that that is his bedroll that the 3DG is on. In our cavalry (U.S.C.S) the troopers' overcoat is rolled and mounted on the forward part of the saddle (his looks like some sort of fur coat, and the blanket roll and poncho on the rear. Officers had what they called "Valieses", factory made pre-shaped and formed tubulor things to put their blanket rool or private stuff in.

You can see his "Lead Rope/Line attached to the horse's halter, which is worn on the head of the horse under the bridle. When camping for the night, etc, he would take the bridle off (and bit out of its mouth) and with the halter still on, lead the horse around with that lead line to water, feed, tie him to a squad, or company pickett line between two trees, etc. While riding it appears the other end is run through a ring at the forward part of the saddle on the "off side" of the mount and back to and wrapped and tied around itself right below the halter. In the U.S. Cavalry, at least in the War for Southern Independence, we used leather lead lines, long supple leather straps basically.

That coiled rope hanging from under his blanket rool/valiese is his personal picket line, all nice and rolled properly. He has a Picket Pin somewhere on his saddle, which he drives in the ground and attaches his picket rope. That way, he can rest, eat, etc, and not worry about his mount wondering off, while the horse wonders abt grazing at end the 30' or so long picket rope.

And on a personal note, I prefer curved sabres for cavalry use as opposed to straight ones such as he has. Curved ones make it easier to slice and cut and to extricate as you ride by after skewering someone.
Forgive my rambling on, but I thought you might be curious about other things in the pic.
Later,
Freebooter

[Pattern14]

It was probably done by Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler) 1846-1933 who was a Victorian military artist of some renown and seems to be done in her style but unfortunately I don't know the name of the work.

I also believe it's a lithograph.

[bigduke6]

Freebooter and Pattern14, thanks for the info, Freebooter it does seem to be some form of tube , with fur wrapped around, am looking at uniforms and think it would be around 1870, had a quick look today and looked in to some campaigns and found info on Abyssinia 1968.

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/force...iaimages47.htm

Think this fits the bill as the 3rd Dargoon gaurds were there, still needs research so if anyone else has any clue,s let me know.