Untitled [Set of Two Prints of Mysore]

a) John Wells after Sir Alexander Allan
Shevengherry
1794
Aquatint on paper
Print Size: 14.25 x 18.75 in (36.5 x 47.5 cm)
Sheet Size: 15.25 x 20 in (38.5 x 51 cm)
With Mount: 20 x 25.5 in (51 x 64.5 cm)

This aquatint is taken from plate 15 of Captain Alexander Allan's Views in the Mysore Country. Sivangiridurg was one of the many hillforts of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore in the late 18th century. The British captured this picture during the third Anglo-Mysore war. According to Allan, Sivangiridurg was a "small but almost impregnable hill-fort, one mile and a half from Ramgherry, ... capitulated immediately after the fall of Ramgherry, and surrendered to the detachment under Captain Welsh on the 24th December, 1791".

b) John Wells after Sir Alexander Allan
Ootray Droog
1794
Aquatint on paper
Print Size: 14.25 x 18.5 in (36 x 47.2 cm)
Sheet Size: 15 x 20 in (38 x 51 cm)
With Mount: 20 x 25.5 in (51 x 64.5 cm)

This aquatint is taken from plate 16 of Captain Alexander Allan's Views in the Mysore Country. Allan described Outradurg, 31 miles from Bangalore, as "a strong hill-fort, 12 miles from Sawandurg, taken by assault on 24 December 1791, by the detachment of the British army under Lt Col Stuart which had captured Sawandurg on the 21st of that month". His sketch shows the defensive walls of the fort. He wrote: "The position of the six successive walls (on the steep ascent of a rock) which defend the fort on this side, was such as to afford the artillery an opportunity of directing their fire against the parapet of the wall next to be carried, over the heads of the assailants; who, thus supported, escaladed or forced the gates of every successive wall, and in less than an hour were masters of the place."

(Set of two)

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