Written records tell us (e.g. the Great Wardrobe Accounts (" Boughton Papers ") preserved in the Round Tower, Windsor Castle) that English dragoon and cavalry guidons and standards of the period 1689-1715 often carried the monarch's cipher with a crown above on a coloured damask sheet, with various fringes. I therefore offer these four generic dragoon guidons with Queen Anne's cipher for the period 1702-1714, which will be useful for the all too many English dragoon regiments of the WSS for which we do not know their guidons.
Fantastic.
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Thank you, Willz. :-) I shall do more with the ciphers of William and William and Mary too!
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David.
Superb flags. Love the background pattern on them.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ray. :-) I'm never quite sure how much to stress the damask pattern; hard to get it quite right!
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David.
Very nice work as always David and very handy too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. Glad to hear they'll be of use! :-)
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David.
Brilliant work and the background 'texture' is beautiful:).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Luckily using layering to get the effects is relatively straightforward with vector drawing!
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David.
Your post has made me confused - I thought the Queen's cypher was more in the shape of an A, or a double intertwined A? At least that is the impression I got from reading Lawson. Could you tell me which sources you have used for these guidons? They look very good.
ReplyDeleteRoyal ciphers always seem to come in various flavours and this is one of those I found for Queen Anne. I used Lawson plus Sumner's article in JSAHR: GREAT WARDROBE ACCOUNTS, 1689 to 1702
Deleteby Percy Sumner, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Autumn, 1941, Vol. 20, No. 79, pp. 139-153 which describes, in more or less detail, standards and guidons of the period to give an idea of the general designs used. I also used Milne's book Standards and Colours of the Army 1661-1881 for general information on the earlier period. Inevitably for this later period the lack of information means one has to reconstruct the flags as little direct visual information is available. Anyway, I am glad you think my versions look good! :-)