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[India]  Charles Earl Cornwallis.
[India] Charles Earl Cornwallis.
Drawn from Lue by W.H.Brown. Engraved by W.Granger.
Published according to Act of Parliament by C.Cooke, N°17, Paternoster row. May 4th 1791.
Engraving. 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"), large margins
Portrait of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738 - 1805), British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In 1798 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-chief of Ireland, where he oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion, including a French invasion of Ireland, and was instrumental in bringing about the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Following his Irish service, Cornwallis was the chief British signatory to the 1802 Treaty of Amiens and was reappointed to India in 1805. He died in India not long after his arrival.
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Warren Hastings Esq.r
Warren Hastings Esq.r
Drawn by Corbould. Eng.d by B. Granger.
London Published by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row, Nov.1. 1796.
Stipple with large margins. Plate 172 x 114mm. 6¾ x 4½". Watermark in lower margin.
Warren Hastings (1732-1818), the first Governor-General of India from 1772 until 1785. He transformed the East India Company from a trading organisation into a great military and naval power. He established full-scale British civil administration in India, but his methods led to a trial for corruption at which he was acquitted in 1795.
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View on the River Wye near Bakewell in Derbyshire.
View on the River Wye near Bakewell in Derbyshire.
Granger sculp.t
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 228 x 323mm. 9 x 12¾". Trimmed to the plate along upper edge and sides. Small hole on right by tree.
A view on the River Wye, for Barlow's "General History of Europe". A fishing scene.
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