Caption:
Uniform of the Marines of the French Imperial Guard. Hussar-like uniform of plumed shako, coat with aurore gold frogging and epaulettes, trousers with piping, armed with sabre and musket. Marins, Garde Imperiale. Handcoloured woodcut by Andrew Best Leloir after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from P.M. Laurent de lArdeches Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.