The detail on the painting is superb. The uniforms are near-perfect, and the details of the fashions in the crowd are fantastic. It is a very active picture, with all of the different Troops, the artillery detachment firing (causing one lady in the crowd to cover her ears), the Surgeons (with their black plumes) watching, children climbing the tree to the left, someone's horse bolting in the background, the sail of a barge going up the Severn, and the band playing in the only record or depiction that we have of them before the 1890's. As a Regimental and Social History document, it is unsurpassable.

Traditionally this painting was believed to have been painted in 1842. This date has been queried several times in the last 10 years, and only in the last month have we been able to confirm that it is indeed wrong. Extensive research has produced much new information and enabled us to say with 100% assurance that the review was that of the 29th September, 1838, and that this work was created over the following months and completed in the spring of 1839.