'A View of Royal Building for His Majesty's Horse & Foot Guards with the Treasury in St. James's Park, London', 1753

Engraving published by T Jeffreys, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, London, May 1753.

A formation of grenadiers and infantry, led by a band, on Horse Guards Parade, in front of Horse Guards, London, with civilian onlookers, 1753.

Horse Guards was named after the mounted troops who have formed the sovereign's Life Guard since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. It grew from a simple building that housed troops on duty as escorts to the King to become the headquarters of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.