Lieutenant Peter Benjamin Mosse, 80th Regiment, 1810 (c)
miniature on ivory, miniature
Accession Number
NAM.1965-10-144-1
Description
Lieutenant Peter Benjamin Mosse, 80th Regiment, 1810 (c). Miniature portrait in watercolour on ivory, artist unknown, 1810 (c). Three-quarter length portrait in uniform, wearing a shoulder belt plate. In a glazed, gilt frame with a ribbon-shaped decoration above, with small handwritten label attached to back of frame: ‘Peter Benjamin Mosse of Rutland House, Carlow, Ireland’. The sitter is shown in the uniform of a subaltern of the 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) around 1810. He wears a red tunic with yellow facings, white crossbelt and a gold epaulette on his right shoulder.
