THE PRUSSIAN ARMY (UNIFORM) UNDER FREDRICH WIHELM IV

<p>An excellent visual presentation of the Prussian Army and their uniforms under the Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm IV.  </p><p>Facsimiles of a fine series of 36 numbered contemporary hand-coloured lithographs. This is a colourful series of military costume plates with over 200 military figures in their 'natural surroundings': camping in battle on horseback on the march etc. Starting with the Garde du Corps in their Gala uniforms there are plates of the Garde Cuirassier Garde Husaren Garde Ulanen-Regiment Garde Dragoner Garde Regiment zu Fuss Garde Jäger Blücher'sches Husaren-Regiment Gendarmes etc. Plate 8 shows the uniforms of the Kaiser Franz and Kaiser Alexander Grenadier-Regiment. </p><p>It contains uniforms with the alterations which were introduced under Friedrich Wilhelm IV especially the well-known so-called 'Pickelhaube'. The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia perhaps as a copy of similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military. </p>