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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 December 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.12.15.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Tipu Sultan (left) gallops (right to left) past Cornwallis who is seated in an ornate chair on the back of an ill-drawn elephant. Tipu, rising in his stirrups, excretes a blast which displaces a boy-mahout on the elephant's neck and strikes Cornwallis. He says, "Now my Lord I'll Tip you the Swamps". The horse excretes a blast directed at the elephant's eye. The elephant, raising its trunk, says, "I wish I could run as fast as he how i would thump him." Cornwallis, with his sabre raised above his head, his left fist clenched, says, "These Monsoons are more Violent than ever I knew them before Boy turn back again." The boy says, "Yes my Lord I am going backwards Pr force." Behind Cornwallis's seat is a box inscribed 'Rice for Gruel during the Monsoons'. Behind Tipu (left) is a circular fort inscribed 'Seringapatam'."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- How to gain a complete victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Watermark: I Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 15, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- India and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805., Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Daggers & swords, Defecation, Elephants, Horses, Military retreats, British, and Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > How to gain a compleat victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach [graphic].
