Caption:
Cavalry officer and pistolier, 1640. Officer with pistol in helmet and suit of armour with buckram skirt over his cuisses, boots and sash sword belt. Private pistolier on horseback in suit of black armour engraved in gilt with plumed helmet. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.