Full Record

Back to Search Results
Lieut Jephson, Queen's Royals, 20 April 1841 / Thomas Wingate
Click on image to enlarge
Request a copy
 
Title:
Lieut Jephson, Queen's Royals, 20 April 1841 / Thomas Wingate
Creator:
Wingate, Thomas, 1807-1869.
Date:
1841
Format:
1 pencil on paper: col ; 17.6 x 13.5 cm.
Inscription:
Identified in pencil in Wingate's hand on lower edge of image: 'Lieut [?] Jephson Queen's Royals' and dated within image: 20th April 1841.
Subject:
portraits
army officers
Jephson, Stanhope William, 1810-1900.
Series:
Wingate album
Description:
This pencil sketch is pasted in on page 51 of a leather-bound folio album containing 62 sketches and watercolours and 33 early photographs, many signed by or attributable to Thomas Wingate (1807-69), former British army officer and second husband of Eleanor Terry nee Rouse (1813-1898).
The subject of the sketch, Lieutenant Stanhope William Jephson, was born in Gibraltar, in March 1810, third son of Sir Richard Mounteney Jephson, Baronet. He joined the British army in November 1830 as an ensign in the 58th Regiment, transferred to the 2nd, or Queen's Royal Regiment in 1836 as a lieutenant, becoming captain in December 1841, major in August 1848, lieutenant colonel in July 1853 and major-general in 1861.
Jephson and Wingate were fellow officers in the 2nd Foot and this sketch was made when they were sharing the experience of British army life in cantonment in Deesa, India, from 1840-1841. [MM, June 2017]
Provenance:
The Miriam & Ian Hamilton Collection
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/3: Wingate album
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact Museums of History NSW to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
52273