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a)
TITLE: Les Fils du Sultan se Rendent.
Le Major General Baird ordonne que le Sultan paroisse, on l' informe qu???il n???est point dans le palais, mais que ses deux fils son prets a se rendre. Alors le Major Allen y entre et peu apres en sort avec les deux princes, qui le g??neral sont recus avec tous les temoignages possibles de bonte et d???humanite. (The Sons of the Sultan surrender. Major Baird ordered the Sultan to be parished, and was informed that he was not in the palace, but that his two sons were ready to surrender. Then Major Allen entered and shortly thereafter with the two princes, who were received with all possible testimonies of kindness and humanity.)
ARTIST: H S Singleton
ENGRAVER: F Jal Pedro / Peint par H Singleton
PUBLISHER: A Suntach
YEAR: 1804
MEDIUM: Engraving
SURFACE: Paper
IMAGE SIZE: 28 x 36.5 cm
PAPER SIZE: 29 x 39 cm
WITH MOUNT: 42 x 53 cm
Engraving after Henry Singleton, by F dalPedro.
This engraving depicts the capture of two of Tipu Sultan???s sons following the Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-1792). This war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Seringapatam, signed by Lord Cornwallis, the Governor-General of India,on behalf of the British East India Company; representatives of the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Mahratta Empire, and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. As part of the treaty, , Tipu Sultan ceded part of his dominion to the British, paid a substantialfinancial settlement, and surrendered two of his sixteen sons as hostages to the British. Accordingly, on 26 February 1792, Princes Mohin-ud-din (or Moiz-ud-din),aged eight, and Abdul Khalik, aged ten, were delivered to Lord Cornwallis at Seringapatam.
b)
TITLE: Le Corps du Sultan Tippoo, Reconnu par Sa Famille (Body of Tippoo Sultan Recognised by His Family)
ARTIST: Sir Robert Kerr Porter
ENGRAVER: F Jal Pedro
PUBLISHER: Luigi Schiavonetti and Anthony Cardon
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1801
MEDIUM: Engraving
SURFACE: Paper
IMAGE SIZE: 27 x 37 cm
PAPER SIZE: 28 x 39.2 cm
WITH MOUNT: 42 x 53 cm
A stipple engraving showing Tipu Sultan's family grieving over his dead body, following his defeat and deathon 4 May 1799, in the battle of Seringapatam.
c)
TITLE: L???Assaut et la Prise de Seringapatam (Assault and the Taking of Seringapatam)
ARTIST: Henry Singleton
ENGRAVER: F Dal Pedro
PUBLISHER: N Schiavonetti and Luigi Schiavonetti.br.PLACE:
YEAR: 1799
MEDIUM: Engraving
SURFACE: Paper
IMAGE SIZE: 28 x 37.5 cm
PAPER SIZE: 28.7 x 40 cm
WITH MOUNT: 42 x 53 cm
d)
TITLE: Dernier Effort et Mort du Sultan Tippoo
ARTIST: Henry Singleton and M Brown
ENGRAVER: F Dal Pedro
PUBLISHER: Antonio Suntach
PLACE:
MEDIUM: Engraving
SURFACE: Paper
IMAGE SIZE: 28 x 37.5 cm
PAPER SIZE: 29 x 40 cm
WITH MOUNT: 45 x 56 cm