Pencil sketch by Elizabeth Thompson (later Lady Butler), 1873.
Four sketches of a drummer and three soldiers, all drawn upside down. From left to right, outline profile of head and torso, full length sketch of a drummer possibly with tiger skin, three quarter length figure from behind, wearing bearskin, full length figure profile left wearing kilt and glengarry, hands behind back, possibly holding a baton.
From a sketchbook of pencil and pen and ink drawings by Elizabeth Thompson (later Lady Butler) (1846-1933), inscribed on the flyleaf ‘Feb 23 1873’, 1873.