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INDIA -- "THE DEPARTURE of the Sons of Tippoo from the Zennana" & "THE DEFINITIVE TREATY by the Hostage Princes into the Hands of Lord Cornwallis". Lond., D. Orme, 1793. 2 beautiful handcold. aquatint plates by F. Bartolozzi (first), and Daniel Orme after Mather Brown. Each c. 480 x 600 mm. (Margins trimmed, a few tiny marg. tears, sl. yellowed).
Attractive prints after Brown's paintings: The first depicting the moment when, on 26 February 1792, the sons of Tipu Sultan, Abdal Khaliq and Muiz-ud-din, were handed over to Cornwallis together with the preliminary treaty between Tipu and the British forces; the second shows Tipu’s sons handing the definitive treaty signed by their father to Lord Cornwallis; this ceremony took place on 19 March 1792, some three weeks after the princes’ surrender.€ 1000
result € 1700
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