Wednesday, November 12, 2025

French Revolution Drums…..

 I have decided to build my French Revolutionary Regiments for the Analogue Painting challenge this year, so research has fully commenced! While I was at the Musee de l’Armée a few weeks ago for the first time I have really looked at the revolution equipment so a number of photos were taken and the rest from all over the place bought together for my research. I do not think I will get to some of the detail but an indicator of what a drum looked like will suffice, the red white blue hoops, and white cords and an indication of a non brass background of some description I suspect! Enjoy another dive down the rabbit hole! 













Cheers

Matt



4 comments:

Donnie McGibbon said...

Very interesting variations there, nice to see them, not something I have thought too much about but very interesting.

Bluewillow said...

I am always thinking about little things….the devil is in the detail

James Fisher said...

That's a really interesting set of photos Matt. Shows plenty of variety to provide options, as with most of the uniforms items and kit during the revolution, hey?
Best wishes, James

Bluewillow said...

Cheers mate, as an ex drummer I take great interest in such things

Cheers
Matt