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- Title:
The Delivery of the Definitive Treaty by the Hostage Princes into the Hands of Lord Cornwallis
- Additional Title(s):
TIPU SULTAN and MYSORE WARS: The Delivery of the Definitive Treaty by the Hostage Princes into the Hands of Lord Cornwallis
- Date:
- 1793
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 1/4 x 25 3/8 inches (51.4 x 64.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered lower left: "Mather Brown Pinx.t Historical Painter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York"; lettered lower center: "To the Honorable the East India Compnay | This plate representing the Delivery of the DEFINITIVE TREATY BY THE HOSTAGE PRINCES into the Hands of Lord Cornwalls | is with Permission humbly Dedicated by their faithful and obedient Servt. Mather Brown. | London, Published December 21, 1793, and sold for the proprietor by D. Orme, No. 14 Old Bond Street: and by Walker & Brachenbury, No.7 Cornhill "; lettered lower right: "Daniel Orme Sculp.t Historical Engraver to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2012.6.1
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- historical subject | hostages | military art | princes | sultans | treaty | turbans
- Associated People:
- Cornwallis, Charles (1738–1805), lieutenant-general
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Victorian visions of war & peace : aesthetics, sovereignty & violence in the British Empire, c.1851-1900, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, p. 121, fig. 40, TR820.6 .W55 2021 (YCBA) [YCBA]