Thursday, 29 August 2024

Preview of 18th Century Spanish Cavalry and Dragoon Standards Recreated By Me

As part of a commission this summer I recreated the standards of several Spanish dragoon and cavalry regiments, on the understanding that the commission would allow me to post the flags on my blog sooner rather than later. These standards were recreated by me from verbal descriptions in Spanish and from rather difficult to interpret poor images from an 18th century Spanish manuscript. So, I cannot promise that they are absolutely accurate but I think the versions I have produced go some way towards appearing like the actual flags and also do look rather attractive, though I say so myself. This sheet is a preview of the standards as I still need to spend some time to create the text and uniform plates for them. Even compressed into a relatively low-resolution JPEG the detail still shows rather well.