How to gain a compleat victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach [graphic].

[London] : Pubd. Decr. 15, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [15 December 1791]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm

laid paper.

"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.

How to gain a complete victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach

English

January 29, 2007

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7932