Les Fils Du Sultan Se Rendent

1804

Later hand-coloured copper engraving on paper

Print Size: 11 x 14.5 in (28 x 36.5 cm)
Sheet Size: 11.75 x 17 in (29.8 x 43 cm)
With Mount: 18 x 23.5 in (46 x 59.3 cm)

Full Title: Les fils du sultan se rendent. Le major général Baird ordonne que le Sultan paroisse, on l'informe qu'il n'est point dans le palais, mais que ses deux fils son prêts à se rendre. Alors le major Allen y entre et peu après en sort avec les deux princes, qui le général sont reçus avec tous les témoignages possibles de bonté et d'humanité. (The sultan's sons surrender. Major General Baird orders the Sultan to arrive and is informed that he is not in the palace but that his two sons are ready to surrender. Then Major Allen enters and shortly after leaves with the two princes, who the general are received with all possible testimonies of kindness and humanity.)

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 substantial financial settlement, and surrendered two of his sixteen sons as hostages to the British. Thus, Lord Cornwallis received Princes Mohin-ud-din (or Moiz-ud-din), aged eight, and Abdul Khalik, aged ten, at Seringapatam on 26 February 1792.

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