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The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the retreat from Seringapatam. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the retreat from Seringapatam.
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
- Date:
- 1830
- Reference:
- 585497i
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About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced July 2021: General Cornwallis mounted on an ass flees terror-stricken from a fortress from which the grinning Tipu Sultan urinates on the retreating British soldiers. Line block after James Gillray, 1830.
Description
On the retreat of General Cornwallis from Seringapatam, India, due to a monsoon following the capture of Bangalore
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; sheet 22.9 x 27.3 cm
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Lettering
[The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the retreat from Seringapatam] -What's the matter, Falstaff'...all would not do. (Text on work, recto)
Notes
This work is untitled: the title has been taken from lettering on the object.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 585497i
Reproduction note
After an etching by James Gillray. Published 6 December 1791 by H. Humphrey, no. 18 Old Bond Street.
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